liberalism and the limits of justice

They examine the transformation of modern liberalism and debates about justice, focusing on: liberal egalitarian ideas about justice and equality; civic obligations; the challenge of living together under conflicting doctrines; and the limits of liberalism in managing pluralism in modern democracies.

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They situate liberal theory in the postwar period, tracing its emergence in response to events such as the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, and locating its development within broader political challenges in the United States and Britain.

They are categorized in political philosophy and political science: one title is listed under Philosophy with a political subgenre, and the other under Political Science with a political ideologies subgenre.

They continue and revise the idea of justice as fairness: reinterpreting its philosophical basis, questioning the assumption of a well-ordered society, and asking how a just society can achieve concord amid a plurality of reasonable but incompatible doctrines.

The available listings show page counts ranging from 432 to 576 pages.

The listings indicate these titles are aimed at adult readers and the academic market—classified for readers 22 and older—and are presented within philosophy or political science categories.

It questions whether the assumption of a stable, relatively homogeneous society holds when modern democracies are divided by reasonable but incompatible doctrines, and asks how citizens can live in concord under such pluralism.

The second edition includes the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," which outlines planned revisions to the work and notes that those planned revisions were cut short by the author's death.