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Justice for Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin
Justice for Hedgehogs by Ronald Dworkin (Harvard Universtiy Press, £24.95))
The first thing to strike you about this remarkable book is its ambition. Academic scholarship these days is more like staying in a hotel than a home: full of rooms offering the prospect of a well-furnished stay but with never a suggestion that you should talk to the guests next door. There is no meeting of minds even in the grander reception spaces, given over as these invariably now are to fundraising and graduate recruitment drives (or pretences at welcoming poorer students). Whenever the likes of philosophy, politics and law meet in the lift in such a place they gaze at the floor indicator in embarrassed silence before rushing off to talk incomprehensibly to their own kind.
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