Contemporary Political Philosophy: a Reader
Janos Kis(Editor)
Central European University Press
Book
Paperback/Softback
500 pages
978-963-9116-43-6 (ISBN)
Description
Political philisophy is a normative discipline which asks three questions. First, what is the right institutional order for society, secondly, what are the appropriate standards against which the social institutions are to be assessed, and thirdly, how do the standards of evaluation select and endorse the favoured institutional order? This reader, includes many essays to address these questions and give a broad view of contemporary political philosophy. Focusing on the debates in the Anglo-Saxon community of philosophers, the materials included concern, directly or indirectly, the liberal tradition, its internal divisions and external criticisms. The contents of the volume are arranged in three parts: part 1 presents the liberal theory as it stood before the publication of John Rawls's classic work, "A Theory of Justice". Part 2 contains the main texts in egalitarian and libertarian liberalism, from Rawls to Dworkin and Ackerman. Part 3 includes texts of perfectionist, feminist and communitarian critics of liberalism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-963-9116-43-6 (9789639116436)
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Content
Part 1: "Two Concepts of Liberty", I. Berlin; "Equality, Value and Merit", F. Hayek; "Utilitarianism, Toleration and Fanaticism", R. Hare. Part 2: "The Basic Liberties and their Priority", J. Rawls; "Distributive Justice" R. Nozick; "Equality vs Liberty", J. Narveson; "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity", R. Dworkin; "Why Dialogue?", B. Ackerman; "Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy", T. Nagel. Part 3: "Liberalism, Authority and the Politics of Neutral Concern", J. Raz; "Justice and Gender", S. Okin; "Welfare, Membership and Need", M. Walzer; "Is Patriotism a Virtue?", A. MacIntyre; "Cross-purposes, the Liberal-Communitarian Debate", C. Taylor.