Social Contract From Hobbes to Rawls

Informationen zum Autor David Boucher (University of Wales, Swansea), Paul Kelly (London School of Economics) Klappentext First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung Leading scholars from Britain and America survey the history of contractarian thought and the major debates in political theory which surround the notion of social contract. This work aims to be a comprehensive introduction within a broad theoretical framework. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors, Preface, 1. The social contract and its critics: an overview, 2. Hobbes's contractarianism: a comparative analysis, 3. John Locke: social contract versus political anthropology, 4. Locke's contract in context, 5. History, reason and experience: Hume's arguments against contract theories, 6. Rousseau, social contract and the modern Leviathan, 7. Kant on the social contract, 8. Hegel's critique of the theory of social contract, 9. Marx against the social contract, 10. Contractarianism and international political theory, 11. Women, gender and contract: feminist interpretations, 12. Gauthier's contractarian morality, 13. Justifying 'justice': rianism, communitarianism and the foundations of contemporary liberalism, 14. Economic justice: contractarianism and Rawls's difference principle, Index

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• Authors: Boucher, David Boucher, David Kelly Boucher, BOUCHER DAVID, BOUCHER DAVID KELLY PAUL, P. J. Kelly, Paul Kelly
• Assisted by: David Boucher (Editor), Paul Kelly (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.11.1994
• EAN: 9780415108454
• ISBN: 978-0-415-10845-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; History of Ideas, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Social History, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state