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This monumental volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of the essential primary readings in post-war political philosophy. The anthology includes classic articles on 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. This new edition updates the existing sections, taking into account recent developments in the field, and adds a new section of articles reflecting the pressing interests in international affairs just war, self-determination and the nation state, and global governance. Together with the Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Blackwell, 1993), this volume forms the basis for a truly systematic introduction to political philosophy as it is practiced today.

Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and of Social and Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. He was the Founding Editor of Blackwell’s Journal of Political Philosophy and General Editor of the ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, in which he himself co-edits volumes on Public Policy (with Michael Moran and Martin Rein) and Contextual Political Analysis (with Charles Tilly). His recent own books include Reflective Democracy (2003) and What's Wrong with Terrorism? (2006).

Philip Pettit is L.S.Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. His recent publications include The Economy of Esteem, (2004, co-authored with Geoffrey Brennan), Rules, Reasons and Norms (2002), A Theory of Freedom (2001), Republicanism (1997), and Three Methods of Ethics (Blackwell 1997, co-authored with Marcia Baron and Michael Slote).

Together, Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit are also the joint editors of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Blackwell 1993; second edition in preparation).

Preface

ix

Preface to the Second Edition

x

Acknowledgments

xi

Part I State and Society

1

(100)

The State

3

(23)

Quentin Skinner

State Simplification

26

(29)

James C. Scott

The Social Contract as Ideology

55

(18)

David Gauthier

The Fraternal Social Contract

73

(15)

Carole Pateman

Invoking Civil Society

88

(13)

Charles Taylor

Part II Democracy

101

(82)

The Public Sphere

103

(4)

Jurgen Habermas

Procedural Democracy

107

(19)

Robert A. Dahl

Preferences and Politics

126

(18)

Cass R. Sunstein

The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory

144

(15)

Jon Elster

Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy

159

(12)

Joshua Cohen

Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence?

171

(12)

Anne Phillips

Part III Justice

183

(96)

Justice as Fairness

185

(16)

John Rawls

Distributive Justice

201

(28)

Robert Nozick

Chance, Choice and Justice

229

(10)

Brian Barry

The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self

239

(9)

Michael J. Sandel

Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship

248

(16)

Iris Marion Young

Superseding Historic Injustice

264

(15)

Jeremy Waldron

Part IV Rights

279

(88)

Are There Any Natural Rights?

281

(8)

H. L. A. Hart

Taking Rights Seriously

289

(13)

Ronald Dworkin

Basic Rights

302

(15)

Henry Shue

A Defense of Abortion

317

(10)

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Justice and Minority Rights

327

(23)

Will Kymlicka

Human Rights as a Common Concern

350

(17)

Charles R. Beitz

Part V Liberty

367

(82)

Two Concepts of Liberty

369

(18)

Isaiah Berlin

What's Wrong with Negative Liberty?

387

(11)

Charles Taylor

A Third Concept of Liberty

398

(18)

Quentin Skinner

Are Freedom and Equality Compatible?

416

(8)

G. A. Cohen

Liberal Pluralism and Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Freedom of Conscience

424

(8)

William A. Galston

Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom

432

(17)

Jeremy Waldron

Part VI Equality

449

(90)

The Idea of Equality

451

(11)

Bernard Williams

Equality and Priority

462

(11)

Derek Parfit

Equality of What?

473

(11)

Amartya Sen

Complex Equality

484

(17)

Michael Walzer

Justice Engendered

501

(21)

Martha Minow

Egalitarianism and the Undeserving Poor

522

(17)

Richard J. Arneson

Part VII Oppression

539

(82)

Power, Right, Truth

541

(8)

Michel Foucault

Racism, Sexism, and Preferential Treatment: An Approach to the Topics

549

(26)

Richard A. Wasserstrom

``Mistresses of Their Own Destiny'': Group Rights, Gender, and Realistic Rights of Exit

575

(16)

Susan Moller Okin

``Dependency'' Demystified: Inscriptions of Power in a Keyword of the Welfare State

591

(16)

Nancy Fraser

Linda Gordon

Bearing the Consequences of Belief

607

(14)

Peter Jones

Part VIII International Affairs

621

(116)

Just War: The Case of World War II

623

(13)

G. E. M. Anscombe

National Self-determination

636

(13)

Avishai Margalit

Joseph Raz

The Law of Peoples

649

(21)

John Rawls

The Romance of the Nation-State

670

(4)

David Luban

Democracy: From City-states to a Cosmopolitan Order?

674

(23)

David Held

Global Governance and Democratic Accountability

697

(13)

Robert O. Keohane

Migration and Poverty

710

(11)

Thomas Pogge

Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective

721

(16)

Brian Barry

Index

737

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Contemporary Political Philosophy : An Anthology

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