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Social justice in the liberal state is a book written by Bruce A. Ackerman, professor of law at the Yale Law School. The book is a new view of the theoretical foundations of liberalism that will challenge us to clarify our own implicit notions of liberal democracy. To Ackerman, liberalism is a kind of structured conversation in which verbal negotiation among those with differing visions of the good life is an alternative to the exercise of naked power. Ackerman has mounted a profound challenge to contract thinking. It works, crudely, on the idea that the premises of a course of contract reasoning can be manipulated so as to yield (more or less) any conclusion that the theorist has some antecedent interest in producing.

Reference

1. Ackerman, Bruce A. (1980). Social justice in the liberal state. New Haven : Yale University Press. ISBN 0300024398.
2. Yale University Press. "Social Justice in the Liberal State". Retrieved 2006-07-16.
3. Book Review Desk (30 Nov1980). "NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR". Late City Final Edition. The New York Times. pp. 14, Column 1, Section 7. {{cite news}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
4. Bull, Barry L. (1992). "THE CREOLIZATION OF LIBERALISM". College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 2006-07-16.
5. D'Agostino, Fred (8 Apr2003). "Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract". Retrieved 2006-07-16. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)