Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology

ISBN-13: 9780415302111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 464 str.

Derek Matravers; Jonathan Pike

Opis

This textbook provides a comprehensive collection of influential essays that present a balanced survey of the major ideas that have come out of this area of study in the 1980s and 1900s. Each article has been carefully chosen to enable any student of political philosophy to grasp the main debates within the topic. The book is clearly divided into two parts. Part One deals with fundamental philsophical issues: the nature of social explanation; distributive justice and liberalism and communitarianism. Part Two contains seminal papers in more specific areas: citizenship and multiculturalism; nationalism; democracy and criminal justice. Readings from the following thinkers are included: Lukes, Nozick, Rawls, Parekh, Walzer, Elster, Frankfurt, Gutmann, Barry, Duff, Cohen, Parfit, Taylor, Scruton, von Hirsch, Wright, Sandel, Young, MacIntyre.

Recenzje

'The list of contributors is impressive ... should be well-received by both students and scholars alike.' - Matthew Webb, Australian Journal of Political Science

O autorze

Jonathan Pike is Lecturer and Staff Tutor at the Open University
Derek Matravers is senior lecturer at the Open University. He is author of Art and Emotions (1998)