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John Rawls and the History of Political Thought - The Rousseauvian and Hegelian Heritage of Justice as Fairness (Hardcover)
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John Rawls and the History of Political Thought - The Rousseauvian and Hegelian Heritage of Justice as Fairness (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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In this book, Jeffrey Bercuson presents the immense, and yet for
the most part unrecognized, influences of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on John Rawls, the most important
political philosopher of the 20th century. While the
well-documented influence of Immanuel Kant on Rawls is deep and
profound, Kantian features and interpretation of justice as
fairness do not tell the whole story about that doctrine. Drawing
on Rawls's Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy and his
Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy, Bercuson presents
the reader with a more nuanced, accurate account of the moral and
political philosophy of Rawls in light of these under-appreciated
influences. This new, richer image of Rawls's political philosophy
shows that Rawls's notion of reasonableness - his notion of the
kind and extent of our obligations to those fellows with whom we
are engaged in social cooperation - is conspicuously more
demanding, and therefore more attractive, than most interpreters
and critics assume. Rawls turns to Rousseau and to Hegel, both of
whom provide attractive images of engaged citizenship worthy of
emulation. Written accessibly, and contributing to key contemporary
debates of global justice, this book will be read by scholars
within the fields of social and political theory, ethics, and
philosophy.
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