Description: The Difference Principle Beyond Rawls Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Chris Wyatt Format: Hardback Language: English Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. ISBN-13: 9780826429421, 978-0826429421 Synopsis This book does not question Rawlsian principles, but it does reject the liberal institutions he [url] the publication of John Rawls' "A Theory of Justice" [tel] - followed up by "Political Liberalism" [tel] and "Justice as Fairness: A Restatement" [tel] - discussions on social justice and redistributive liberalism have taken center stage in contemporary political theory. This book adds to an enormous body of literature. It does not question Rawlsian principles, but it does reject the liberal institutions he advocates. A debate is constructed in which his liberalism is contrasted with a libertarian socialism informed by the English theorist of guild socialism [url] Cole [tel].These two authors visualize alternative macro socio-economic schemes. Although they are set within modern liberal and libertarian socialist frameworks respectively, they share a commitment to reducing vast inequalities in wealth. Central to the Rawlsian scheme is the difference principle - that inequalities are only permitted if they benefit the least well off. Rawls proposes that citizens deliberating without awareness of subjective talents - a collective lack of knowledge captured by the Rawlsian term the veil of ignorance - will be compelled to prioritize a society structured to accommodate this principle to other systems in which inequalities are allowed to concentrate with lesser degrees of regulation. This assertion will not be challenged. However, it is shown how the difference principle will be more easily realized in the left libertarian scheme, in which the author defends. The argument is that Rawlsian premises point to a more radical conclusion that Rawls acknowledges.
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Book Title: The Difference Principle Beyond Rawls
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Difference Principle Beyond Rawls
Type: Textbook
Author: Chris Wyatt
Subject Area: Political Science
Format: Hardcover
