Question

Match List - I with List - II.  

\[ \begin{array}{|l|l|} \hline \textbf{List - I (Authors)} & \textbf{List - II (Books)} \\ \hline A.\ \text{Michael Sandel} & I.\ \text{Liberalism and the Limits of Justice} \\ \hline B.\ \text{Michael Walzer} & II.\ \text{Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality} \\ \hline C.\ \text{Vladimir Lenin} & III.\ \text{The State and Revolution} \\ \hline D.\ \text{Edward Said} & IV.\ \text{Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient} \\ \hline \end{array} \] 
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

• A. A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV
• B. A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II
• C. A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II
• D. A-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II

Hint:

Sandel and Walzer are the "Big Two" of Communitarianism. Sandel writes about the "Limits" of liberalism, while Walzer writes about different "Spheres" of justice.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Concept: This list focuses on significant 20th and 21st-century texts in political philosophy, Marxist theory, and post-colonial studies that have shaped contemporary debate.

Step 1: Identifying Communitarian Critics.

• A. Michael Sandel (Liberalism and the limits of Justice): Sandel is a prominent communitarian critic of John Rawls's liberalism, arguing that individuals are "embedded" in their social contexts and that justice must account for community values. (A-I)
• B. Michael Walzer (Spheres of Justice): Walzer argued that justice is "complex" and that different goods (money, education, political power) should be distributed according to different criteria in their own independent "spheres." (B-II)

Step 2: Identifying Revolutionary and Post-Colonial Texts.

• C. Vladimir Lenin (The State and Revolution): Written in 1917, this is Lenin's most important theoretical work on the role of the state in a proletarian revolution and the necessity of its eventual "withering away." (C-III)
• D. Edward Said (Orientalism): This foundational text of post-colonial theory examines how the West creates a stereotypical and "othered" image of the East to justify colonial dominance. (D-IV)

Step 3: Final Sequence.
The alignment A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV is found in Option (1).