John Rawls / by Audard, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…The primacy of justice -- Constructing the principles of justice -- Defending democratic equality : the argument from the original position -- Pluralism and political consensus : the argument for political liberalism -- A reasonable law of peoples for a real world -- Conclusion: Beyond liberalism.…”
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John Rawls. by Audard, Catherine

Table of Contents: “…Defending democratic equality: The argument from the Original Position; 4. Pluralism and political consensus: The argument for political liberalism; 5. …”
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Politics and literature at the turn of the millennium / by Keren, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Politics in literature -- The "original position" in José Saramago's Blindness -- Absurdity and revolt in Cormac McCarthy's The Road -- The bystander's tale : Gil Courtemanche's A Sundady at the Pool in Kigali -- Fiction and the study of slums : Anosh Irani's The Cripple and His Talismans -- Narrative and memory in Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, Günter Grass's Crabwalk and André Brin's The Rights of Desire -- The politics of victimhood in John Le Carré's Abolute Fiends -- The quest of identity in Sayed Kashua's Let It Be Morning -- Political escapism in contemporary Israel : David Grossman's To the End of the Land -- Body and mind in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake -- A Canadian alternative to the clash of civilizations : Yann Martel's Life of Pi.…”

Perfecting justice in Rawls, Habermas, and Honneth : a deconstructive perspective / by Bankovsky, Miriam

Table of Contents: “…Kantian Criteria for the Possible: Taming Levinasian ObligationA Further Criterion: Practicability; From a Homogenous Morality Towards an Acknowledgement of Impossibility; Further Qualifications; Moderating the 'Art of the Possible': A Deconstructive Perspective; Chapter 3 Rawls and the 'Undecidability' of the Original Position Procedure; The Priority of Liberty: Initial Immunity to Anti-Democratic Outcomes; The Failures of Rawlsian Justice: On the Duty to Comply with Injustice; Correcting Rawls on 'Excusable General Envy': A Sentiment with Moral Significance; Justice-to-Come in Rawls.…”
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