What Do We Deserve?: A Reader on Justice and Desert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195122186 ISBN 13: 9780195122183

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1998

Much of contemporary social and political theory has reduced the concept of desert to a minor role. The work of John Rawls is the prime example. Recently some philosophers have argued that the notion merits a more central place in social and political theory. This reader brings together opposing positions and arguments, thus stimulating debate over the meaning and significance of desert in contemporary thought. The book includes eight classical and twenty-two contemporary readings on the concept.