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Books by John Rawls

John Rawls (1921–2002) was an American moral and political philosopher who spent most of his career at Harvard University. A Theory of Justice, his first book, transformed liberal political philosophy and generated decades of responses, extensions, and objections. His later works, Political Liberalism and The Law of Peoples, revised and extended his account of justice in light of criticism. Rawls also wrote Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, which provides a more accessible condensed version of his mature position for readers deterred by the length and technicality of the original.