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(1999) Continental Philosophy Review 32 (2).
John Rawls has recently shifted to a "freestanding" or "political" liberalism from his earlier "comprehensive" and "moral" liberalism. I argue that this move is based on several key features that make Rawlsian liberal pluralism indelibly postmodern. Two of the more obvious features are the denial of foundationalism and the rejection of a truth status for public-sphere justifications of the basic political structure. In conclusion, I suggest that a late-modern postliberalism is a viable alternative.
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Beggs, D. (1999). Rawls's political postmodernism. Continental Philosophy Review 32 (2), pp. 123-141.
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