Rescuing Justice and Equality
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
 Trade In this Item for up to £18.00
Get an extra £5 when you trade in books worth £10 or more until June 30, 2012. Trade in Rescuing Justice and Equality for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £18.00, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Find more products eligible for trade-in.
|
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
An exceptionally rich and challenging work. Cohen develops his ideas with a remarkable degree of ingenuity, subtlety and textual attentiveness. Furthermore they are presented with extraordinary clarity. If the arguments are difficult to understand, it is for that reason: they are difficult arguments to understand.
--Times Literary Supplement
--Times Literary Supplement
Product Description
In this stimulating work of political philosophy, acclaimed philosopher G. A. Cohen sets out to rescue the egalitarian thesis that in a society in which distributive justice prevails, people's material prospects are roughly equal. Arguing against the Rawlsian version of a just society, Cohen demonstrates that distributive justice does not tolerate deep inequality.In the course of providing a deep and sophisticated critique of Rawls' theory of justice, Cohen demonstrates that questions of distributive justice arise not only for the state but also for people in their daily lives. The right rules for the macro scale of public institutions and policies also apply, with suitable adjustments, to the micro level of individual decision-making.Cohen also charges Rawls' constructivism with systematically conflating the concept of justice with other concepts. Within the Rawlsian architectonic, justice is not distinguished either from other values or from optimal rules of social regulation. The elimination of those conflations brings justice closer to equality.
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Hardcover
This book is a very well argued critic about John Rawls' Theory of Justice and his later Political Liberalism. It also argues a particular theory of justice that, according to the author, rescues equality from other considerations and put it as the main value to protect in our current democratic societies.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
1 review
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Thumbs up, but read Rawls first
7 Sep 2009
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
It's an interesting enough book and what Cohen is saying is really nuanced and a huge improvement on a Pareto or maximum utility sort of justice. However, if you have not read Rawls thoroughly, I think you would miss the importance of the nuances. In other words, you may want to read or have a discussion about the ideas Rawls puts forth so that you can appreciate the what Cohen is attempting to accomplish in advancing the discourse of justice and equality.
Was this review helpful?
Let us know
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
