In the Shadow of Justice (eBook)

Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy

Katrina Forrester (Autor)

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2019
432 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18942-0 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A forceful, encyclopedic study."e;-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 JusticeIn 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.

Autor

Katrina Forrester is assistant professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. She is the coeditor of Nature, Action, and the Future. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the Nation, the Guardian, Dissent, the New Statesman, n+1, and Harper’s. Twitter @katforrester

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2019
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Amartya Sen • Anti-Imperialism • anti-statism • A Theory of Justice • Bernard Williams • Brian Barry • Calculation • Capitalism • Civil disobedience • Civil Society • Communitarianism • Consideration • Constitutionalism • constitutional law • Contingency (Philosophy) • Cosmopolitanism • critique • Decision-Making • DIRTY HANDS • disadvantage • distributive justice • Economic Growth • Economics • egalitarianism • Equal Opportunity • ethics • Explanation • Global Justice • Government • Ideology • imperialism • Individualism • Institution • insurance • Intellectual • international ethics • International Law • Judith Jarvis Thomson • Justice as Fairness • just society • Just War Theory • Lecture • Legitimacy (political) • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Liberalism in the United States • Marxism • Michael Walzer • Modernity • Morality • moral psychology • moral responsibility • Neoliberalism • Obligation • optimism • Original Position • Ownership • Personhood • Philosopher • Philosophy • Political Economy • Political Liberalism • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Politics • post-industrial society • post-structuralism • Prejudice • Provision (contracting) • Quentin Skinner • Racism • Radicalism (historical) • Rational Choice Theory • Rationality • Regime • Requirement • Right-libertarianism • right to property • Robert Nozick • Ronald Dworkin • Self-Interest • skepticism • Social Democracy • Social Justice • social liberalism • Social Science • Social Theory • Sociology • Suggestion • The Administrative State • theory • Thomas Nagel • Totalitarianism • Uncertainty • Utilitarianism • Veil of Ignorance • Wealth • welfare • Welfare State • Westphalian Sovereignty
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18942-0 / 0691189420
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18942-0 / 9780691189420