Hardcovers: Philosophy
Edited by Dick Donahue and Skip Skwarek. Compiled by Alia Akkam, Natalie Danford, Diane Patrick, Sarah Robbins, Judith Rosen and Michelle Wildgen. -- Publishers Weekly, 6/29/2009
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Sept., $25) by Michael J. Sandel. The author draws on his course at Harvard (the subject of a fall PBS series) to explain how philosophy can help make sense of politics and morality. 50,000 first printing. Author tour.
HARVARD UNIV. PRESS
The Idea of Justice (Nov., $29.95) by Amartya Sen critiques a transcendental theory of social justice, concerned with identifying just social arrangements in a just society.
TARCHER
What Is God? (Dec., $23.95) by Jacob Needleman weighs in on the debate over the existence of a higher power.
