![]() ![]() A Theory of Justice is thus likely to remain one of the most influential works of political philosophy well into the twenty-first century. Adherents of the key premises and conclusions of A Theory of Justice remain, I believe, the largest single contingent among political philosophers, normative political theorists, and legal theorists. The earlier book remains, in any case, the crucial work because it is the source of Rawls's prestige and of the doctrine he continues to defend, albeit in modified form. ![]() Rawls has published a great deal since, but this later work generally advances a more guarded, less universalistic, and to my mind less interesting version of the doctrine developed in A Theory of Justice. John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, which was published thirty years ago, has been the most influential work of political philosophy in the second half of the twentieth century. ![]()
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