Poeticized Culture The Role of Irony in Rawls's Liberalism

In Poeticized Culture, James Hersh shows the John Rawls' framework of liberal public reason (Political Liberalism, 1993), within which he proposes his scheme of justice as fairness, includes an unacknowledged call for a Richard Rortian poeticized culture. Hersh argues that, despite Rawls's intentions, his framework within which he proposes justice as fairness demands a Rortian ironic perspective and does not allow for citizens to hold absolute or literal religious beliefs.Hersh, James is the author of 'Poeticized Culture The Role of Irony in Rawls's Liberalism', published 2005 under ISBN 9780761832614 and ISBN 0761832610.