Books in the The Library of Essays on Justice series

Addresses questions such as: What is the status of people now deceased and people who may exist in the future? What duties of justice do we have towards people with whom we can neither interact nor co-operate, and can people who are indirect victims of past injustices legitimately claim compensation?

Forty years ago, in his landmark work "A Theory of Justice", the American philosopher John Rawls depicted a just society as a fair system of cooperation between citizens, regarded as free and equal persons. This title features important and influential theories of justice from the 'post Rawlsian' era.