A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

by Goodin, Robert E.; Pettit, Philip; Pogge, Thomas W.

• ISBN13: 9780631199519
• ISBN10: 0631199519
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-01-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Political philosophy has become an increasingly active area of research over the past four decades. In response to the growing interest in the field, this new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include fifty-five chapters across two volumes written by some of today 's most distinguished scholars.Straddling analytic and continental philosophy, the first part of the Companion considers the contributions of economics, history, law, political science, international relations and sociology to normative political thought. The collection then provides analyses of eight live political ideologies, including new chapters on Cosmopolitanism and Fundamentalism, and detailed discussions of key concepts, with much expanded coverage of international politics and global justice.An essential reference for anyone interested in this dynamic field, the new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy is the most current and comprehensive resource available.

Author Biography

Robert Goodin is a Distinguished Professor jointly of Philosophy and of Social & Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. General Editor of a 10-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science and founding editor of Blackwell's Journal of Political Philosophy, Goodin served as co-editor of the British Journal of Political Science and Associate Editor of Ethics.

Philip Pettit, formerly of the Australian National University, is now L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values in Princeton University. He works in moral and political theory and on background issues in philosophical psychology and social ontology.

Thomas Pogge is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction	1	(6)
Robert E. Goodin
Philip Pettit
PART I: DISCIPLINARY CONTRIBUTIONS
Analytical philosophy	7	(32)
Philip Pettit
Continental philosophy	39	(33)
David West
History	72	(18)
Richard Tuck
Sociology	90	(33)
Robert Brown
Economics	123	(34)
Geoffrey Brennan
Political science	157	(26)
Robert E. Goodin
Legal studies	183	(32)
Tom D. Campbell
PART II: MAJOR IDEOLOGIES
Anarchism	215	(29)
Richard Sylvan
Conservatism	244	(25)
Anthony Quinton
Feminism	269	(22)
Jane J. Mansbridge
Susan Moller Okin
Liberalism	291	(21)
Alan Ryan
Marxism	312	(21)
Barry Hindess
Socialism	333	(26)
Peter Self
PART III: SPECIAL TOPICS
Autonomy	359	(7)
Gerald Dworkin
Community	366	(13)
Will Kymlicka
Contract and consent	379	(15)
Jean Hampton
Constitutionalism and the rule of law	394	(10)
C. L. Ten
Corporatism and syndicalism	404	(7)
Bob Jessop
Democracy	411	(11)
Amy Gutmann
Dirty hands	422	(9)
C. A. J. Coady
Discourse	431	(7)
Ernesto Laclau
Distributive justice	438	(24)
Serge-Christophe Kolm
Efficiency	462	(9)
Russell Hardin
Environmentalism	471	(18)
John Passmore
Equality	489	(19)
Richard J. Arneson
Federalism	508	(7)
William H. Riker
International affairs	515	(12)
Chris Brown
Legitimacy	527	(7)
Richard E. Flathman
Liberty	534	(14)
Chandran Kukathas
Power	548	(10)
Terence Ball
Property	558	(10)
Andrew Reeve
Republicanism	568	(7)
Knud Haakonssen
Rights	575	(11)
Jeremy Waldron
Secession and nationalism	586	(11)
Allen Buchanan
Sociobiology	597	(14)
Allan Gibbard
The state	611	(11)
Patrick Dunleavy
Toleration and fundamentalism	622	(7)
Stephen Macedo
Totalitarianism	629	(9)
Eugene Kamenka
Trust	638	(7)
John Dunn
Virtue	645	(6)
Michael Slote
Welfare	651	(14)
Alan Hamlin
Index	665