If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?

First edition. 8vo. Pp. xii, 233. 3 line illus. Black cloth, titled in silver to spine.

2001 ForeWord Book of the Year Award. G.A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. Author was Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University.

"[A] remarkably successful blend of autobiography, intellectual history and moral philosophy that reflects the author's distinctive outlook and background. [It] presents, I believe, the most important contemporary challenge to the egalitarian form of liberalism... The questions he asks are the ones we should all be worrying about." –Thomas Nagel, TLS