The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls

ISBN-13: 9780415108454 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 292 str.

Boucher; David Boucher; Paul Kelly

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

David Boucher (University of Wales, Swansea), Paul Kelly (London School of Economics)