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A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University)

A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy By Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University)

A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy by Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University)

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A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy Edited by Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit and Thomas Pogge Political philosophy has become an increasingly active area of research over the past four decades.

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A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy by Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University)

An essential reference for anyone interested in this dynamic field, the new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy is the most current and comprehensive resource available.

  • Expanded second edition brings together fifty-five chapters on current thinking in political philosophy
  • New contributors include some of today's most distinguished scholars, among them Thomas Pogge, Charles Beitz, Michael Doyle and Antony Quinton
  • Provides in-depth coverage of contemporary philosophical debate in all major disciplines
  • Presents analysis of key political ideologies, including new chapters on Cosmopolitanism and Fundamentalism
  • Includes detailed discussions of major concepts in political philosophy, including virtue, power, human rights, and just war

A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy Reviews

This volume does contemporary political philosophy proud.... the real quality of the volume like this is a function of its contributions, and the pieces here could hardly be bettered. Utilitas

It will provide an unrivalled overview of the principal positions and debates in political philosophy over the past thirty years or so. It should establish itself as the standatd one-volume reader for some time to come. Daniel Weinstock, University of Montreal

About Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University)

Robert Goodin is a Distinguished Professor jointly of Philosophy and of Social & Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. General Editor of a 10-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science and founding editor of Blackwell's Journal of Political Philosophy, Goodin served as co-editor of the British Journal of Political Science and Associate Editor of Ethics.

Philip Pettit, formerly of the Australian National University, is now L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values in Princeton University. He works in moral and political theory and on background issues in philosophical psychology and social ontology.

Thomas Pogge is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Contributors xi

Introduction 1
Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit

Part I: Disciplinary Contributions

1 Analytical philosophy 7
Philip Pettit

2 Continental Philosophy 39
David West

3 History 72
Richard Tuck

4 Sociology 90
Robert Brown

5 Economics 123
Geoffrey Brennan

6 Political science 157
Robert E. Goodin

7 Legal Studies 183
Tom D. Campbell

Part II Major Ideologies

8 Anarchism 215
Richard Sylvan

9 Conservatism 244
Anthony Quinton

10 Feminism 269
Jane J. Mansbridge and Susan Moller Okin

11 Liberaslism 291
Alan Ryan

12 Marxism 312
Barry Hindess

13 Socialism 333
Peter Self

Part III Special Topics

14 Autonomy 359
Gerald Dworkin

15 Community 366
Will Kymlicka

16 Contract and consent 379
Jean Hampton

17 Constitutionalism and the rule of law 394
C. L. Ten

18 Corporatism and syndicalism 404
Bob Jessop

19 Democracy 411
Amy Gutmann

20 Dirty Hands 422
C. A. Coady

21 Discourse 431
Ernesto LacLau

22 Distributive Justice 438
Serge-Christophe Kolm

23 Efficiency 462
Russell Hardin

24 Environmentalism 471
John Passmore

25 Equality 489
Richard J. Arneson

26 Federalism 508
William H. Riker

27 International affairs 515
Chirs Brown

28 Legitimacy 527
Richard E. Flathman

29 Liberty 534
Chandran Kukathas

30 Power 548
Terence Ball

31 Property 558
Andrew Reeve

32 Republicanism 568
Knud Haakonssen

33 Rights 575
Jeremy Waldron

34 Secession and nationalism 586
Allen Buchanan

35 Sociobiology 597
Allan Gibbard

36 The state 611
Patrick Dunleavy

37 Toleration and fundamentalism 322
Stephen Macedo

38 Totalitarianism 629
Eugene Kamenka

39 Trust 638
John Dunn

40 Virtue 645
Michael Slote

41 Welfare 651
Alan Hamlin

Index 665

Additional information

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A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy by Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University)
Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University)
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
1995-12-18
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