Liberal Legitimacy: The Justification of Political Power in the Work of John Rawls, Hardcover/Fabian Wenner

How does the idea of public justification and adjacent concepts figure in the work of John Rawls? This book offered a detailed study which allows for an interpretation of how A Theory of Justice and Political Liberalism converge and diverge. It also offers a systematic appraisal of the different strands and genealogy of legitimacy theory, both descriptive and normative. In so doing, it brings a fresh new perspective to this important element of Rawls's theory. About author(s): Fabian Wenner is Researcher at the Center for the Advanced Study in Bioethics at the University of Münster and Research Assistant at the University of Münster.