Reconstructing Rawls

The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

Av Robert S. Taylor, University of California - Davis) Taylor, Robert S. (Associate Professor (starting 7/1/10), Robert S. Taylor

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Reconstructing Rawls has one overarching goal: to reclaim Rawls for the Enlightenment—more specifically, the Prussian Enlightenment. Rawls’s so-called political turn in the 1980s, motivated by a newfound interest in pluralism and the accommodation of difference, has been unhealthy for autonomy-based liberalism and has led liberalism more broadly toward cultural relativism, be it in the guise of liberal multiculturalism or critiques of cosmopolitan distributive-justice theories. Robert Taylor believes that it is time to redeem A Theory of Justice’s implicit promise of a universalistic, comprehensive Kantian liberalism. Reconstructing Rawls on Kantian foundations leads to some unorthodox conclusions about justice as fairness, to be sure: for example, it yields a more civic-humanist reading of the priority of political liberty, a more Marxist reading of the priority of fair equality of opportunity, and a more ascetic or antimaterialist reading of the difference principle. It nonetheless leaves us with a theory that is still recognizably Rawlsian and reveals a previously untraveled road out of Theory—a road very different from the one Rawls himself ultimately followed.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-11-15
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt544 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271037721

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ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsAcronymsIntroductionPart 1: Kantian Affinities1.Rawls’s KantianismPart 2: Reconstructing Rawls2.The Kantian Conception of the Person3.The Priorities of Right and Political Liberty4.The Priority of Civil Liberty5.The Priority of Fair Equality of Opportunity6.The Difference PrinciplePart 3: Kantian Foundations7.Justifying the Kantian Conception of the Person8.The Poverty of Political LiberalismConclusion: Justice as Fairness as a Universalistic Kantian LiberalismBibliographyIndex

“Taylor goes against the grain of much Rawls scholarship in arguing that the Rawlsian framework for liberal justice should revert more thoroughly to its Kantian roots. Taylor’s critical reinterpretation of liberal theory will challenge those theorists who view Rawls’s political turn as a necessary accommodation of pluralism and social difference. Indeed, Taylor argues that Rawls abandoned his Kantianism at his peril. The scholarly and bold line of argument developed here is one with which all theorists currently engaged with the alleged promise or shortcomings of the liberal project will have to grapple.”—John Christman, The Pennsylvania State University