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Contemporary Political Philosophy An Anthology

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ISBN-10: 1405130652

ISBN-13: 9781405130653

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit

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This authoritative collection of the seminal texts in post-war political philosophy has now been updated and expanded. Reprints key articles, mainly unabridged, touching upon the nature of the state, democracy, justice, rights, liberty, equality and oppression. Includes work from politics, law and economics, as well as from continental and analytic philosophy. Now includes thirteen additional texts, taking account of recent developments in the field and reflecting the most pressing concerns in international affairs. Can be used alongside A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing, 1993; second edition in preparation) as the basis for a systematic…    
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Book details

List price: $72.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/23/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 760
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 2.882
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgements
State and Society
The State (University of Cambridge)
The Social Contract as Ideology:(University of Pittsburgh)
The Fraternal Social Contract: (UCLA)
Theses on the Theory of the State: Claus Offe (Humboldt University Berlin)
Invoking Civil Society: (McGill University)
Democracy: From City-States to a Cosmopolitan Order?: (Open University)
Democracy
The Public Sphere: (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet)
Procedural Democracy: (Yale University)
The Market and the Forum: (University of Chicago)
Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy: (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Preferences and Politics: (University of Chicago)
From a Politics of Ideas to a Politics of Presence: (London Guildhall University)
Justice
Justice as Fairness: (Harvard University)
Distributive Justice: (Harvard University)
The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self
Polity and Group Difference: (University of Pittsburgh)
The Domain of the Political and Overlapping Consensus: (Harvard University)
Rights
Citizenship and Social Class: (University of Oxford)
Are there any Natural Rights: (University of Oxford)
Taking Rights Seriously: (University of Oxford and New York University)
Basic Rights: (Cornell University)
A Defence of Abortion: (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Justice and Minority Rights: (University of Ottawa)
Liberty
Two Concepts of Liberty: (University of Oxford)
What's Wrong with Negative Liberty?: (McGill University)
The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom: (University of Oxford)
Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom: (University of California at Berkeley)
Equality
The Idea of Equality: (University of Oxford)
Equality of What?: (Harvard University)
Complex Equality: (Harvard University)
Justice Engendered: (Harvard University)
Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective: (University College, London)
Oppression
Power, Right, Truth
Bearing the Consequences of Belief: (University of Newcastle)
Exploitation, Alternatives and Socialism: (University of California, Davis)
Racism, Sexism and Preferential Treatment: (University of California at Santa Cruz)
Moral Woman and Immoral Man: (Vanderbilt University)
'dependency' Demystified: (Northwestern University) and Linda Gordon (Nova University)