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In Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, he provokes a debate thats been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?

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Michael J. Sandel, geboren 1953, ist politischer Philosoph. Er studierte in Oxford und lehrt seit 1980 in Harvard. Seine Vorlesungsreihe über Gerechtigkeit machte ihn zum weltweit populärsten Moralphilosophen.

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