The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
by Edited by Ralf M. Bader , John MeadowcroftFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-01-16
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyse Nozick's ideas from a variety of perspectives and explore neglected areas of the work such as his discussion of anarchism and his theory of utopia. Their detailed and illuminating picture of Anarchy, State, and Utopia, its impact and its enduring influence will be invaluable to students and scholars in both political philosophy and political theory.
Author Biography
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).
Table of Contents
| Notes on contributors | p. ix |
| Note on citation | p. xii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Morality | |
| Side constraints, Lockean individual rights, and the moral basis of libertarianism | p. 15 |
| Are deontological constraints irrational? | p. 38 |
| What we learn from the experience machine | p. 59 |
| Anarchy | |
| Nozickian arguments for the more-than-minimal state | p. 89 |
| Explanation, justification, and emergent properties: an essay on Nozickian metatheory | p. 116 |
| Justice | |
| Nozick's libertarian theory of justice | p. 145 |
| Nozick's critique of Rawls: distribution, entitlement, and the assumptive world of A Theory of Justice | p. 168 |
| The right to distribute | p. 197 |
| Does Nozick have a theory of property rights? | p. 230 |
| Utopia | |
| The framework for Utopia | p. 255 |
| E pluhbus plurum, or, How to fail to get to Utopia in spite of really trying | p. 289 |
| References | p. 303 |
| Index | p. 313 |
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