162 Pages
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Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
162 Pages
by
Routledge
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By the mid-twentieth century interest in political philosophy had dwindled, with one writer even pronouncing the subject ‘dead’. Things were to change in 1971, when the subject experienced a renaissance with the publication of John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice . The story didn’t end with Rawls however, as other avenues through which to approach the subject became available.
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1. Introduction: Death by Language?
Part 1
2. A Case Study: Logical Positivism
3. A Note on Expectations
4. ‘Ordinary’ Language and Political philosophy
Part 2
5. The Rawlsian Renaissance
6. Rawls: Comparisons and Contrasts
7. Patterns of Thought
8. The Liberal Self
9. Historicism: The Self Through Time
10. Postscript.
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Alan Haworth is a Senior Research Associate (emeritus) of London Metropolitan University. He is the author of numerous articles, and his books include Totalitarianism and Philosophy (2020), Understanding the Political Philosophers (second edition, 2012), Free Speech (1998), and Anti-Libertarianism (1994). All are published by Routledge.
