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“A Quite Similar Enterprise … Interpreted Quite Differently”? James Buchanan, John Rawls and the Politics of the Social Contract
Modern Intellectual History Pub Date : 2021-03-09 , DOI: 10.1017/s1479244320000487
Ben Jackson , Zofia Stemplowska

A striking aspect of the initial reception of John Rawls is that he was embraced by leading market-liberal theorists such as Friedrich Hayek and James Buchanan. This article investigates the reasons for the free-market right's sympathetic interest in the early Rawls by providing a historical account of the dialogue between Rawls and his key neoliberal interlocutor, James Buchanan. We set out the common intellectual context, notably the influence of Frank Knight, that framed the initial work of both Buchanan and Rawls and brought them together as seeming allies during the early 1960s. We then analyze a significant theoretical divergence between the two in the 1970s related to their contrasting responses to the politics of those years and to differences over the importance of ideal theory in political thought. The exchanges between Buchanan and Rawls demonstrate that Rawlsian liberalism and neoliberalism initially emerged as entwined critiques of mid-twentieth-century political economy but could not sustain that alliance when faced by the new claims for civil and social rights that became a marked feature of politics after the 1960s.

中文翻译:

“一个非常相似的企业……解释完全不同”?詹姆斯·布坎南、约翰·罗尔斯和社会契约的政治

约翰·罗尔斯最初受到欢迎的一个显着方面是,他被弗里德里希·哈耶克和詹姆斯·布坎南等领先的市场自由主义理论家所接受。本文通过提供罗尔斯与他的主要新自由主义对话者詹姆斯·布坎南之间对话的历史记录,调查了自由市场右翼对早期罗尔斯产生同情的兴趣的原因。我们列出了共同的知识背景,特别是弗兰克奈特的影响,它构成了布坎南和罗尔斯的最初工作,并在 1960 年代初期将他们作为看似盟友联系在一起。然后,我们分析了 1970 年代两者之间的重大理论分歧,这与他们对当时政治的不同反应以及对理想理论在政治思想中的重要性的差异有关。
更新日期:2021-03-09
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