Companion to Rawls

Jon Mandle is Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University at Albany (SUNY). He has published two books on the work of John Rawls and one on global justice. His work engages in political philosophy, ethics, the philosophy of social science, and their histories.David A. Reidy is Professor and Head in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee. He works in political and legal philosophy with special attention to the work of John Rawls and to issues of global justice and human rights. With Rex Martin he co-edited (and contributed to) a volume on Rawls's "The Law of Peoples" recognized by the American Library Association with a "Choice Award."

“An outstanding collection of 31 essays, this collection provides a wide range of material for those interested in Rawls, liberalism, and political philosophy in general. This is one of those volumes that every university library should own. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” – Choice, October 2014 "The editors aim to produce “not so much a summary of past scholarly work as a serviceable roadmap for current and future work on Rawls” (1). It is a high ambition which raises high expectations which are, happily, lived up to." - Dialogue "This Companion to Rawls is a rich collection of stimulating and critical essays, which provides us with more than a state of the art volume. The textual interpretations, contextual elucidations and illuminating connections with diverse disciplines invite the reader to explore new paths and perspectives. For students of (political) philosophy the volume will be more than a thorough introduction to the philosophy of Rawls. For well-grounded scholars, who are fully acquainted with Rawls’s works, it will open up new insights and subtleties and offer them inspiration for future research. The Companion to Rawls is a welcome contribution to Rawls scholarship, which looks beyond A Theory of Justice and does justice to the versatility and ingenuity of Rawls’s works and thoughts" - Dialogue

• Notes on Contributors ixIntroduction 1Jon Mandle and David A. ReidyPart I Ambitions 71 From Philosophical Theology to Democratic Theory: Early Postcards from an Intellectual Journey 9David A. Reidy2 Does Justice as Fairness Have a Religious Aspect? 31Paul WeithmanPart II Method 573 Constructivism as Rhetoric 59Anthony Simon Laden4 Kantian Constructivism 73Larry Krasnoff5 The Basic Structure of Society as the Primary Subject of Justice 88Samuel Freeman6 Rawls on Ideal and Nonideal Theory 112Zofia Stemplowska and Adam Swift7 The Choice from the Original Position 128Jon MandlePart III A Theory of Justice 1458 The Priority of Liberty 147Robert S. Taylor9 Applying Justice as Fairness to Institutions 164Colin M. Macleod10 Democratic Equality as a Work-in-Progress 185Stuart White11 Stability, a Sense of Justice, and Self-Respect 200Thomas E. Hill, Jr12 Political Authority, Civil Disobedience, Revolution 216Alexander KaufmanPart IV A Political Conception 23313 The Turn to a Political Liberalism 235Gerald Gaus14 Political Constructivism 251Aaron James15 On the Idea of Public Reason 265Jonathan Quong16 Overlapping Consensus 281Rex Martin17 Citizenship as Fairness: John Rawls’s Conception of Civic Virtue 297Richard Dagger18 Inequality, Difference, and Prospects for Democracy 312Erin I. KellyPart V Extending Political Liberalism: International Relations 32519 The Law of Peoples 327Huw Lloyd Williams20 Human Rights 346Gillian Brock21 Global Poverty and Global Inequality 361Richard W. Miller22 Just War 378Darrel MoellendorfPart VI Conversations with Other Perspectives 39523 Rawls, Mill, and Utilitarianism 397Jonathan Riley24 Perfectionist Justice and Rawlsian Legitimacy 413Steven Wall25 The Unwritten Theory of Justice: Rawlsian Liberalism versus Libertarianism 430Barbara H. Fried26 The Young Marx and the Middle-Aged Rawls 450Daniel Brudney27 Challenges of Global and Local Misogyny 472Claudia Card28 Critical Theory and Habermas 487Kenneth Baynes29 Rawls and Economics 504Daniel Little30 Learning from the History of Political Philosophy 526S.A. Lloyd31 Rawls and the History of Moral Philosophy: The Cases of Smith and Kant 546Paul GuyerIndex 567