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Book SynopsisIn Poeticized Culture, James Hersh shows the John Rawls'' framework of liberal public reason (Political Liberalism, 1993), within which he proposes his scheme of justice as fairness, includes an unacknowledged call for a Richard Rortian ''poeticized culture.'' Hersh argues that, despite Rawls''s intentions, his framework within which he proposes justice as fairness demands a Rortian ironic perspective and does not allow for citizens to hold absolute or literal religious beliefs. Hersh argues that this Rortian perspective makes Rawls''s justice as fairness the most reasonable scheme for the world''s emerging democracies, particularly for those democracies emerging in the Middle East where literal religious beliefs are held with such fervor.
Trade ReviewA timely and urgent reminder of the role of irony and of poetic imagination for the world ridden by a variety of religious and ideological fundamentalism. -- Lubomir Gleiman, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Salve Regina University
Lucid, well argued text…a seminal work in comparative literature on John Rawls. -- Naresh Dadhich, Professor of Political Science, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India and author of John Rawls: Theory of Justice (2003)
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Irony and Political Compartmentalizing Chapter 4 Irony and the Law Chapter 5 Irony and Political Justification in a Future Just Jerusalem Chapter 6 Epilogue: The Precedent for a Poeticizes Culture in Greek Tragedy Chapter 7 Notes Chapter 8 A Glossary of Rawls's Terminology Chapter 9 Works Cited Chapter 10 Index Chapter 11 About the Author
