Well, sort of. Check out The Philosopher of Our Times by Steven B. Smith in the New York Sun. A taste:
Rawls's ambition was to re-establish the grand tradition of political philosophy at a time when it was widely considered moribund. It had become either something called "the history of political thought" which examined political ideas in their historical context, or a branch of "analytical philosophy" which was based on the minute linguistic and logical analysis of concepts. The publication of "A Theory of Justice" had the virtue of breathing new life into a dying field. Rawls turned back to the social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and especially Immanuel Kant in order to derive substantive principles of justice that could provide a defense of a more democratic social order.
