Published by Humanitas, Under the Shadow of Justice explores how liberal political philosophy evolved in the latter half of the 20th century under the influence of John Rawls. Awarded the 2020 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History by the American Historical Association, the book shows how liberal egalitarianism—a constellation of ideas about justice, equality, obligation, and the state—became a dominant political philosophy in the 20th century, and traces its emergence, challenges, and transformation within the political and ideological contexts of postwar America and Britain.

Inspired by Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, Everyday Practice visualizes distributive justice through the metaphor of cutting a cake, while representing the climate crisis as a melting cake made of candle wax. The multicolored wax symbolically reflects the complexity and diversity of interpretations surrounding Rawls’s theory.