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In the Shadow of Justice - Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy (Hardcover)
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In the Shadow of Justice - Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy (Hardcover)
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"A forceful, encyclopedic study."—Michael Eric Dyson, New York
Times A history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise
of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by John Rawls’s A
Theory of Justice In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how
liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of
the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this
first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrina
Forrester shows how liberal egalitarianism—a set of ideas about
justice, equality, obligation, and the state—became dominant, and
traces its emergence from the political and ideological context of
the postwar United States and Britain. In the aftermath of the
civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, Rawls’s A Theory of
Justice made a particular kind of liberalism essential to political
philosophy. Using archival sources, Forrester explores the ascent
and legacy of this form of liberalism by examining its origins in
midcentury debates among American antistatists and British
egalitarians. She traces the roots of contemporary theories of
justice and inequality, civil disobedience, just war, global and
intergenerational justice, and population ethics in the 1960s and
’70s and beyond. In these years, political philosophers extended,
developed, and reshaped this liberalism as they responded to
challenges and alternatives on the left and right—from the New
International Economic Order to the rise of the New Right. These
thinkers remade political philosophy in ways that influenced not
only their own trajectory but also that of their critics. Recasting
the history of late twentieth-century political thought and
providing novel interpretations and fresh perspectives on major
political philosophers, In the Shadow of Justice offers a rigorous
look at liberalism’s ambitions and limits.
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