The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy

by Fiala, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781847065544
• ISBN10: 1847065546
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-04-23
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy is the definitive guide to contemporary political philosophy. The book covers all the most pressing and important themes and categories in the field - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Fourteen specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts, including Eduardo Mendieta and Gillian Brock, reveal where important work continues to be done in the area and, most valuably, the exciting new directions the field is taking. The Companion explores a range of issues from the nature and history of political philosophy, sovereignty, distributive justice, democratic theory, feminist theory, to toleration, human rights, immigration, cosmopolitanism, peace, war, and the challenge of Eurocentrism in political philosophy. Featuring a series of indispensable research tools, including an A to Z of key terms and concepts, a chronology, a detailed list of resources, and a fully annotated bibliography, this is the essential reference tool for anyone researching or working in political philosophy.

Author Biography

Matt Matravers is Professor of Politics at the University of York, UK. His previous publications include Justice and Punishment (OUP, 2000) and Responsibility Within Justice (CUP, 2006).

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA. He is the author of The Just War Myth (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), The Philosopher's Voice (SUNY Press, 2002) and Practical Pacifism (Algora Press, 2004).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. A-Z of Key Terms and Concepts
3. Research Methods and Problems
4. Current Research and Issues
i. What is Political Philosophy? James Alexander (Bilkent University, Turkey)
ii. Approaches to the History of Political Philosophy, TBC
iii. Distributive Justice: Domestic and Global, Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge, UK)
iv. Retributive Justice, Chris Bennett (University of Sheffield, UK)
v. Democratic Theory, John Dryzek (ANU, Australia)
vi. Feminism, Andrea Baumeister (University of Stirling, UK)
vii. Postmodernism and Critical Theory, John Sambonmatsu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
viii. The Politics of Identity, Jocelyn Maclure (University of Laval, France)
ix. Fundamentalism and Toleration, R. Paul Churchill (George Washington University, USA)
x. War, George Lucas (U.S. Naval Academy)
xi. The Limits of Politics and the Limits of Political Philosophy, TBC
5. New Directions
i. Completing Rawls, Zofia Stemplowska (University of Manchester, UK)
ii. Assaulting Rawls, TBC
iii. Redrawing the Limits of Politics, Glen Newey (Keele University, UK)
iv. Does Political Philosophy Have a History?, Iain Hampsher-Monk (University of Exeter, UK)
v. Does Political Philosophy Have a Future?, David Schrader (Executive Director, American Philosophical Association)
6. Chronology
7. Resources
8. Annotated Bibliography
Index