Reconstructing Rawls : : The Kantian Foundations of Justice as Fairness / / Robert S. Taylor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Taylor, Robert S.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Acronyms --; Introduction --; Part 1: Kantian Affinities --; 1 Rawls's Kantianism --; Part 2: Reconstructing Rawls --; 2 The Kantian Conception of the Person --; 3 The Priorities of Right and Political Liberty --; 4 The Priority of Civil Liberty --; 5 The Priority of Fair Equality of Opportunity --; 6 The Difference Principle --; Part 3: Kantian Foundations --; 7 Justifying the Kantian Conception of the Person --; 8 The Poverty of Political Liberalism --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780271056715; 9783110745269
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271056715?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert S. Taylor.

Reconstructing Rawls has one overarching goal: to reclaim Rawls for the Enlightenment-more specifically, the Prussian Enlightenment. Rawls's so-called political turn in the 1980s, motivated by a newfound interest in pluralism and the accommodation of difference, has been unhealthy for autonomy-based liberalism and has led liberalism more broadly toward cultural relativism, be it in the guise of liberal multiculturalism or critiques of cosmopolitan distributive-justice theories. Robert Taylor believes that it is time to redeem A Theory of Justice's implicit promise of a universalistic, comprehensive Kantian liberalism. Reconstructing Rawls on Kantian foundations leads to some unorthodox conclusions about justice as fairness, to be sure: for example, it yields a more civic-humanist reading of the priority of political liberty, a more Marxist reading of the priority of fair equality of opportunity, and a more ascetic or antimaterialist reading of the difference principle. It nonetheless leaves us with a theory that is still recognizably Rawlsian and reveals a previously untraveled road out of Theory-a road very different from the one Rawls himself ultimately followed.