Collected Papers Author:Samuel Freeman John Rawls's work on justice has drawn more commentary and aroused wider attention than any other work in moral or political philosophy in the twentieth century. Rawls is the author of two major treatises, A Theory of Justice (Harvard, 1971) and Political Liberalism (1993); it is said that A Theory of Justice revived political philosophy in the ... more »English-speaking world. But before and after writing his great treatises Rawls produced a steady stream of essays. Some of these essays articulate views of justice and liberalism distinct from those found in the two books. They are important in and of themselves because of the deep issues about the nature of justice, moral reasoning, and liberalism they raise as well as for the light they shed on the evolution of Rawls's views. Other articles tackle issues not addressed in either book. They help identify paths open to liberal theorists of justice and the knotty problems that liberal theorists must seek to resolve. "What a body of work this is, and what an accomplishment. Collected Papers affords an opportunity to step back and see [Rawls's] work as a whole, as the elaboration of a single powerful and abiding idea … The other thing these papers show—and for this we should be grateful to Freeman's persistence in having them republished—is how hard-won Rawls's achievement has been." —Jeremy Waldron, London Review of Books« less