NDPR Jonathan Quong Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice

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Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

2026.06.3 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews

Jonathan Quong, Political Philosophy: The Puzzle of Legitimate Injustice, Princeton University Press, 2026, 216pp., $29.95 (hbk) ISBN 9780691215648.

Reviewed by Charles Larmore, Brown University

Jonathan Quong’s new book pursues two distinct goals. As a volume in the series “Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy”, it is intended to offer a survey of some of the key issues in political philosophy, one that will engage even non-specialists having little prior acquaintance with this field. Yet it seeks to do so by focusing on only one specific problem, canvasses a number of proposed ways of handling it, and goes on to present Quong’s own solution. This dual aim might have proven impracticable in a book of less than 200 pages if the problem chosen were not as...