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An authoritative introduction to scholarly discourse on anarchy-covering the possibility, dynamics, and appeal of social order without the state. The 30 original chapters draw on philosophy, economics, law, history, politics, and religious studies. An essential volume for students and scholars studying anarchy.
List of contents
Introduction Part I: Concept and Significance 1. Anarchism, Anarchists, and Anarchy 2. The Anarchist Landscape 3. On the Distinction between State and Anarchy 4. Methodological Anarchism 5. What is the Point of Anarchism? Part II: Figures and Traditions 6. Anarchism against Anarchy: The Classical Roots of Anarchism 7. Kant on Anarchy 8. Barbarians in the Agora: American Market Anarchism, 1945-2011 9. Rights, Morality, and Egoism in Individualist Anarchism 10. Transcending Leftist Politics: Situating Egoism Within the Anarchist Project 11. De facto Monopolies and the Justification of the State 12. Two Cheers for Rothbardianism 13. Christian Anarchism Part III: Legitimacy and Order 14. Anarchism and Political Obligation: An Introduction 15. The Positive Political Economy of Analytical Anarchism 16. Moral Parity Between State and Non-State Actors 17. Economic Pathologies of the State 18. Hunting for Unicorns 19. Social Norms and Social Order 20. Anarchy and Law 21. Anarchism, State, and Violence 22. The Forecast for Anarchy Part IV: Anarchy and Critique 23. Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Private Property 24. The Right Anarchy: Capitalist or Socialist? 25. Anarchist Approaches to Education 26. An Anarchist Critique of Power Relations within Institutions 27. Anarchism for an Ecological Crisis? 28. States, Incarceration, and Organizational Structure: Towards a General Theory of Imprisonment 29. The Problems of Central Planning in Military Technology 30. Anarchy and Transhumanism
About the author
Gary Chartier is Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of seventeen books, including Anarchy and Legal Order (2013), Flourishing Lives: Exploring Natural Law Liberalism (2019), and The Logic of Commitment (2018).
Chad Van Schoelandt is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University. His work has been published in Ethics, Analysis, Philosophical Studies, the Philosophical Quarterly, and Law and Philosophy.
Summary
An authoritative introduction to scholarly discourse on anarchy—covering the possibility, dynamics, and appeal of social order without the state. The 30 original chapters draw on philosophy, economics, law, history, politics, and religious studies. An essential volume for students and scholars studying anarchy.
