Click to enlargeThe Idea of JusticebyAmartya FBA Sen(Author)
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- Paperback / softback
- 496 pages, None
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint:Penguin Books Ltd
- ISBN:9780141037851
- Published:1 Jul 2010
- Classifications:
- Ethics & moral philosophy
- Readership:
- General (US: Trade)
- Weight:340g
- Dimensions:205 x 161 x 22(mm)
- Pub. Country:United Kingdom
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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. 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.
'A major advance in contemporary thinking' John Gray, Literary Review 'The most important contribution to the subject since John Rawls's A Theory of Justice' Hilary Putnam, Harvard University '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' Economist 'Sen's magisterial critique of the dominant mode of liberal political philosophy confirms him as the English-speaking world's pre-eminent public intellectual' New Statesman Books of the Decade Amartya Sen is 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 The Argumentative Indian, Identity and Violence and Development as Freedom. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
The Idea of Justice
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Paperback / softbackAuthor