Michael J. Sandel
Author · 11 books
Michael J. Sandel is an American political philosopher who lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1980. He is best known for the Harvard course 'Justice', which is available to view online, and for his critique of John Rawls' A Theory of Justice in his first book, Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (1982). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002.
Books
Democracy's Discontent
A New Edition for Our Perilous Times
1996
Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
2007
A Path to the World
2022
Equality
What It Means and Why It Matters
2025
The Tyranny of Merit
What's Become of the Common Good?
2020
What Money Can't Buy
The Moral Limits of Markets
2012
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
1982
Encountering China
Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy
2018
Public Philosophy
Essays on Morality in Politics
2005
The Case against Perfection
Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
2007
Liberalism and Its Critics
1984
