A review by cetian
The Idea of Justice by Amartya Sen

4.0

Took me a long time to finish it, and severall restarts. But it was rewarding. Amartya Sen has a brilliant analytical capacity, that sometimes can almost be too thorough, but always seems anchored in a humanist horizon. The final chapters are the ones in which we can see more clearly the socio-political aplications of the moral philosophy that the author goes through the entire book. The body of references to other authors is incredibly rich and there is a balance of intelectual modesty and academic confidence that make this work unapologetic where it is critic of others but with an elegant and polite tone. Coming from a series of Zizek and Sam Harris texts, maybe this was part of the dificulty I had in picking up rhythm. Eventually I discovered it was my problem and it had to do with style, not content.