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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.

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  1. Front Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Table of Contents
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  1. Illustrations
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface and Acknowledgments
  2. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. xiii-xiv
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  1. Acronyms
  2. pp. xv-xvi
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. xvii-xxiii
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  1. Part One: Kantian Affinities
  1. Chapter One: Rawls's Kantianism
  2. pp. 3-56
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  1. Part Two: Reconstructing Rawls
  1. Chapter Two: The Kantian Conception of the Person
  2. pp. 59-114
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  1. Chapter Three: The Priorities of Right and Political Liberty
  2. pp. 115-151
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  1. Chapter Four: The Priority of Civil Liberty
  2. pp. 152-172
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  1. Chapter Five: The Priority of Fair Equality of Opportunity
  2. pp. 173-191
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  1. Chapter Six: The Difference Principle
  2. pp. 192-228
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  1. Part Three: Kantian Foundations
  1. Chapter Seven: Justifying the Kantian Conception of the Person
  2. pp. 231-248
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  1. Chapter Eight: The Poverty of Political Liberalism
  2. pp. 249-300
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  1. Conclusion: Justice as Fairness as a Universalistic Kantian LIberalism
  2. pp. 301-317
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  1. References
  2. pp. 318-325
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 326-336
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  1. Back Cover
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