Theories of Justice A Treatise on Social Justice, Vol. 1 [Paperback]

What is social justice? InTheories of JusticeBrian Barry provides a systematic and detailed analysis of two kinds of answers. One is that justice arises from a sense of the advantage to everyone of having constraints on the pursuit of self-interest. The other answer connects the idea of justice with that of impartiality. Though the first book of a trilogy,Theories of Justicestands alone and constitutes a major contribution to the debate about social justice that began in 1971 with Rawls'sA Theory of Justice.

Brian Barryis Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and author ofPolitical Argument, among other titles.