This monumental volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of the essential primary readings in post-war political philosophy.
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"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 standard one-volume reader for some time to come." Daniel Weinstock, University of Montreal
"Some of the most precious works of contemporary political philosophy brought together in one monumental volume - each of them masterpieces. The editors have done a marvellous job." Review Acta Politica
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The thirty-nine mostly unabridged classic essays touch upon the nature of the state, democracy, justice, rights, liberty, equality, and oppression. It sets work in politics, law and economics alongside philosophical texts; work of continental philosophers alongside analytic philosophers; work of feminists, marxists, and other radicals alongside that of more traditional liberals.
Together with the Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Blackwell, paperback edition 1996), also edited by Goodin and Pettit, this volume forms the basis for a truly systematic introduction to political philosophy as it is practised today.
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full procedural democracy, utilitarian equality, subjective welfarism, drowning child case, radical contractarianism, ideal deliberative procedure, socialist exploitation, basic capability equality, contractarian society, alienable assets, subsistence duties, optimus status reipublicae, equal fulfilment, worse endowed, term stato, contractarian ideology, pure distribution problem, unjust background conditions, entitlement conception, utility disadvantage, entitlement theorist, segregated bathrooms, appropriative activity, patterned principles, subsistence rights Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Cambridge University Press, Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press, Supreme Court, Harvard University Press, John Rawls, New Haven, John Stuart Mill, Polity Press, Clarendon Press, Poor Law, Yale University Press, Good Samaritan, Woman Suffrage, Isaiah Berlin, Philosophical Review, University of Chicago Press, Giovanni da Viterbo, Basic Books, United Nations, University of California Press, Blackwell Publishers, Jon Elster New!
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- A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition (Belknap) by John Rawls on 7 pages
- Citizenship and Social Class (Pluto Perspectives) by Trevor Marshall on 6 pages
- Two Treatises of Government by John Locke on 5 pages
- Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick on 4 pages
- Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls on 4 pages
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- Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The Theory and Practice of Egalitarian Justice (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy) by Lesley A. Jacobs on 7 pages
- Women, Political Philosophy and Politics by Liz Sperling on 4 pages
- Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization by Michael Goodhart in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- In Defence of the Realm: The Place of Nations in Classical Liberalism by David Conway in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Fundamentals of Philosophy by John Shand on page 349, and page 350
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