John Rawls: An Intellectual Biography

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David Reidy
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Knoxville, TN 37916-3801)

My project is an intellectual biography of John Rawls. At present there is no intellectual biography of Rawls; indeed, no one is even yet at work on one. John Rawls produced the most important body of political philosophy in defense of constitutional liberal democracy since John Stuart Mill. Yet his work remains often poorly or incompletely understood, within both the academy and the general educated public. Intellectual biographies provide a valuable resource for those who seek to understand fully and completely the meaning of a body of philosophical work. In Rawls's case, the promise of an intellectual biography is especially great. Archival sources indicate that there is a depth, unity and range to Rawls's work beyond that already apparent from his texts. Indeed, they suggest that Rawls's confronted in his life's work not only the political problems of modern constitutional democracies, but the problems of modernity itself. His work means more than his texts alone reveal.

Associated Products

A Companion to Rawls (Book)
Title: A Companion to Rawls
Editor: David Reidy & Jon Mandle
Abstract: A comprehensive collection of original essays surveying and assessing, and placing in historical context, the totality of Rawls's work in moral and political philosophy.
Year: 2014
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/companion-to-rawls/oclc/844790177&referer=brief_resultshttp://
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-1-4443-371
Copy sent to NEH?: No

The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon (Book)
Title: The Cambridge Rawls Lexicon
Editor: David Reidy & Jon Mandle
Abstract: A comprehensive encyclopedia covering ~250 terms of art/essential concepts from Rawls's corpus, each explicated in an essay from 500 to 5000 words by a scholar expert.
Year: 2015
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/companion-to-rawls/oclc/844790177&referer=brief_resultshttp://
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-0-521-1929
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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