John Rawls

Towards a Just World Order

Author(s) Patrick Hayden

Language: English

Genre(s): Politics

Series: Political Philosophy Now

  • April 2002 · 224 pages ·216x138mm

  • · Paperback - 9780708317280
  • · Hardback - 9780708317297

John Rawls: Towards a Just World Order' is a concise and detailed analysis of one of the foremost political philosophers of our time that demonstrates the importance of Rawls's work for contemporary debates regarding international relations, world politics and human rights.

Clear and thorough in reviewing the development of Rawls's thinking . . . International Relations specialists should read this book as a vigorous defence of cosmopolitanism.

Author(s): Patrick Hayden

Patrick Hayden is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Director of Peace and Justice Studies at New England College. He has written on a wide range of topics in philosophy and political philosophy, is the author of Multiplicity and Becoming: The Pluralist Empiricism of Gilles Deleuze (1998) and the editor of Philosophical Perspectives on Law and Politics (1999) and The Philosophy of Human Rights.

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