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In 1974, Rawls ' colleague at Harvard, Robert Nozick, published a defense of libertarian justice, Anarchy, State, and Utopia.

Because it is, in part, a critique of A Theory of Justice, the two books are now often read together.

Another Harvard colleague, Michael Walzer, wrote a defense of communitarian political philosophy, Spheres of Justice, as a result of a seminar he co-taught with Nozick.

In a related line of criticism, Michael Sandel, also a Harvard colleague, wrote Liberalism and the Limits of Justice, which criticized A Theory of Justice for asking us to think about justice while divorced from the values and aspirations that define who we are as persons, and which allow us to determine what justice is.