Publisher's Synopsis
This is an anatomy of the ethical and political preconceptions which underlie theories of justice. The author takes as her cue Hegel's description of modernity in which politics and ethics have fallen out of harmony with one another. Heller explores the nature of this breakdown with elegant and penetrating reference to the work of Kierkegaard, Goethe, Rousseau, Hegel, Diderot and Hutcheson.
