Cambridge Companion to Nozick''s Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Informationen zum Autor Ralf M. Bader is a Bersoff Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow in the Philosophy Department at New York University. He is the author of Robert Nozick (2010). John Meadowcroft is Lecturer in Public Policy in the Department of Political Economy, King's College London. He is the author of The Ethics of the Market (2005), James M. Buchanan (2011) and (with Mark Pennington) Rescuing Social Capital from Social Democracy (2007). Klappentext This Companion presents a detailed assessment of Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia and analyses its contribution to political philosophy. Zusammenfassung This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's classic contribution to political philosophy. Contributors analyse Nozick's ideas from a variety of perspectives and assess the impact and enduring influence of his work. The volume will be invaluable to students and scholars in both political philosophy and political theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Ralf M. Bader and John Meadowcroft; Part I. Morality: 1. Side constraints, Lockean individual rights, and the moral basis of libertarianism Richard Arneson; 2. Are deontological constraints irrational? Michael Otsuka; 3. What we learn from the experience machine Fred Feldman; Part II. Anarchy: 4. Nozickian arguments for the more-than-minimal state Eric Mack; 5. Explanation, justification, and emergent properties - an essay on Nozickian metatheory Gerald Gaus; Part III. State: 6. The right to distribute David Schmidtz; 7. Nozick's libertarian theory of justice Peter Vallentyne; 8. Does Nozick have a theory of property rights? Barbara Fried; 9. Nozick's critique of Rawls John Meadowcroft; Part IV. Utopia: 10. The framework for utopia Ralf M. Bader; 11. E Pluribus Plurum - how to fail to get to utopia in spite of really trying Chandran Kukathas.

Product details

• Authors: Ralf M. (New York University) Meadowcroft Bader
• Assisted by: Ralf M. Bader (Editor), Bader Ralf M. (Editor), John Meadowcroft (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9780521197762
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19776-2
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Constitution: government and the state