Rawls: An IntroductionRawls: An Introduction is a uniquely comprehensive introduction to the work of the American philosopher John Rawls (1921 2002), who transformed contemporary political philosophy. In the 1950s and 1960s, political philosophy seemed to have reached a dead end characterized by a loose predominance of utilitarian theses. Rawls's conception of liberalism placed civil liberties and social justice at its core, and his extraordinary influence has only been