In anarchy state and utopia7/6/2023 ![]() The success of the book in the marketplace, as well as the high esteem in which Rawls is held by his colleagues and students, has spawned a cottage industry of criticism and commentary on Rawls's “ideal contractualism,” which has been misread in some quarters as a doctrine for levelers. The publication of John Rawls's cumbersome A Theory of Justice surprised Harvard University Press four years ago by becoming its best seller. After a generation in which questions of logic and scientific method have preoccupied the dominant, analytic school of American philosophy, tenured professors are now interested in applying their newly honed conceptual tools to the predicament of man in society, and there appears to be an audience for their writings. For better or worse, academic philosophers are intent on deepening our discussion of political and moral issues. ![]()
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