Volume 40, Number 14 · August 12, 1993
Liberalism: The New Twist
By Stuart Hampshire
Political Liberalism
by John Rawls
Columbia University Press, 401 pp., $29.95
John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1970) gave a new start to political philosophy, which had been in the doldrums for many decades, having been overshadowed by developments in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind. The study of the past masters of political philosophy was dutifully prolonged in universities, but without much hope of a new vision that would be likely to stir the interest of a wider public. The dust jacket says that A Theory of Justice has been translated into every major European language as well as into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean: a wider public indeed.
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