In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy

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A bold new history of postwar political philosophy and of how John Rawls transformed modern liberalism In the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in the second half of the twentieth century under the influence of John Rawls. In this first-ever history of contemporary liberal theory, Katrina Forre

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"Winner of the S-USIH Book Prize, Society for U.S. Intellectual History"
"Winner of the Merle Curti Intellectual History Award, Organization of American Historians"
"Shortlisted for the RHS Gladstone Book Prize, Royal Historical Society"
"Shortlisted for the ECPR Political Theory Prize, European Consortium for Political Research"
"One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2019"

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Katrina Forrester is assistant professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. She is the coeditor of Nature, Action, and the Future. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, n+1, the Nation, and Harpers. Twitter @katforrester