![]() Mandle’s book is divided into four main parts. He is basically sympathetic to the project in TJ and sees his task as one of rescuing ‘its core from misinterpretation and misguided criticisms’ (p. ![]() Mandle pays particular attention to showing why TJ should not be read as an early luck-egalitarian work and why it is not a defense of welfare-state capitalism. ![]() ![]() Often, however, the exposition is broken off to sketch briefly and then reject interpretations of Rawls’ position that Mandle finds exegetically and otherwise unsatisfactory. In accordance with the aim of the series, the basic tone of the book is expository. 1 Jon Mandle is surely right that this remains as true now as it was in 1974. As one of Rawls’ critics, Robert Nozick, wrote in 1974: ‘Political philosophers now must either work within Rawls’ theory or explain why not’. This one introduces a book that has undoubtedly been extremely important over the last forty years: John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice (henceforth TJ). ![]() Cambridge Introductions to Key Philosophical Texts offer ‘introductory textbooks on what are considered to be the most important texts of Western Philosophy’. ![]()
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