Rawls is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents “in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all works.” He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings.
In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that John Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s.
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