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FREE AND EQUAL - DANIEL CHANDLER KARTONIERT (TB)

*A Waterstones  Financial Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*'A tremendous book  timely 
wise  authoritative and clear' Stephen Fry'A brilliantly eloquent  incredibly insightful
reimagining of liberalism' Owen Jones'Clear  brave  compelling' David Miliband'Inspiring ...
impassioned ... full of hope' Zadie Smith'This is a fantastic book' Thomas PikettyImagine: you
are designing a society  but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor  man or
woman  gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like?This is the revolutionary
thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century's greatest political philosopher  John
Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler argues in this hugely ambitious and
exhilarating intervention  it is by rediscovering Rawls that we can find a way out of the
escalating crises that are devastating our world today.Taking Rawls's humane and egalitarian
liberalism as his starting point  Chandler builds a careful and ultimately irresistible case
for a progressive agenda that would fundamentally reshape our societies for the better. He
shows how we can protect free speech and transcend the culture wars  get money out of politics
and create an economy where everyone has the chance to fulfil their potential  where prosperity
is widely shared  and which operates within the limits of our finite planet.This is a book
brimming with hope and possibility - a galvanising alternative to the cynicism that pervades
our politics. Free and Equal has the potential not only to transform contemporary debate  but
to offer a touchstone for a modern  egalitarian liberalism for many years to come  cementing
Rawls's place in political discourse  and firmly establishing Chandler as a vital new voice for
our time.

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