Rawls's Law of Peoples

A Realistic Utopia?

David A Reidy editor Rex Martin editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:5th Apr '06

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John Rawlsis considered the most important theorist of justice in much of western Europe and the English-speaking world more generally. This volume examines Rawls’s theory of international justice as worked out in his last and perhaps most controversial book, The Law of Peoples. It contains new and stimulating essays, some sympathetic, others critical, written by pre-eminent theorists in the field. These essays situate Rawls’s The Law of Peoples historically and methodologically, and examine all its key ingredients: its thin cosmopolitanism, its doctrine of human rights, its principles of global economic justice, and its normative theory of liberal foreign policy. The book will set the terms of the debate on The Law of Peoples for years to come, thereby shaping the broader debates about global justice.

"This is a useful and illuminating volume that will greatly deepen its readers' understanding of Rawls's The Law of Peoples and related problems of justice and human rights on a global scale." (Human Right Review, December 2008)

A Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book for 2006

ISBN: 9781405135306

Dimensions: 250mm x 100mm x 15mm

Weight: 794g

344 pages