{"product_id":"9780141037851-the-idea-of-justice","title":"The Idea of Justice","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIs justice an ideal, for ever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? This book offers a fresh approach to mainstream theories of justice. It shows how the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism and address vital questions of global injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, \u003ci\u003eThe Idea of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e is a refreshing alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Is justice an ideal, for ever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the role of public reason in establishing what can make societies less unjust. But there are always choices to be made between alternative assessments of what is reasonable, and competing positions can each be well defended. Rather than rejecting these pluralities, we should use them to construct a theory of justice that can accommodate divergent points of view. Sen also inspiringly shows how the principles of justice in the modern world must avoid parochialism and address vital questions of global injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The breadth of vision, intellectual acuity and striking humanity of one of the world's leading public intellectuals have never been more clearly shown than in this remarkable book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'A major advance in contemporary thinking'\u003cbr\u003e  John Gray, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'The most important contribution to the subject since John Rawls's \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Justice\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003cbr\u003e  Hilary Putnam, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Sen writes with dry wit, a feel for history and a relaxed cosmopolitanism . a conviction that economists and philosophers are in business to improve the world burns on almost every page'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'Sen's magisterial critique of the dominant mode of liberal political philosophy confirms him as the English-speaking world's pre-eminent public intellectual'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e Books of the Decade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAmartya Sen \u003c\/b\u003eis Lamont University Professor at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 1998-2004. His most recent books are \u003ci\u003eThe Argumentative Indian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIdentity and Violence \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDevelopment as Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e. His books have been translated into thirty languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943162622049,"sku":"9780141037851","price":22.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32391257.jpg?v=1737218735","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780141037851-the-idea-of-justice","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}