Capitalism, Justice, and the Boundaries of Liberalism
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Steven Lukes
Abstract
The argument of Katrina Forrester’s In the Shadow of Justice explains the present neglect of Rawlsian thinking in the social and political world beyond academia. She there convincingly shows how its deep assumptions, conceptual framing and narrow view of what constitutes politics disabled it from grappling with the subsequent massive transformations of capitalism. Her second argument, advanced in her article and questioned here, offers an ideology critique of Rawlsian thinking that claims, in its strongest version, that such thinking fails to acknowledge that capitalism is not reformable and that this failure derives from its liberal assumptions. What is needed, she claims, is a critique that implies the feasibility of attaining a post-capitalist world that is based on a theory that goes beyond the boundaries of liberalism.
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- Frontmatter
- Liberalism and Social Theory after John Rawls
- Durkheimian Thoughts on In the Shadow of Justice
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- How to Do Things with Justice: Professor Rawls, 1962–1971
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- General Part
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- Discussion
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Liberalism and Social Theory after John Rawls
- Durkheimian Thoughts on In the Shadow of Justice
- Capitalism, Justice, and the Boundaries of Liberalism
- Whose Realism? Which Legitimacy? Ideologies of Domination and Post-Rawlsian Political Theory
- How to Do Things with Justice: Professor Rawls, 1962–1971
- John Rawls and R. M. Hare: A Study of Canonization
- General Part
- International Relations Theory and the Ukrainian War
- Discussion
- Does Post-truth Expand or Restrict Political Choice? Politics, Planning, and Expertise in a Post-truth Environment
- Symmetry in World-Historic Perspective: Reply to Lynch
