A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, 2 Volume Set

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

• ISBN13: 9781405136532
• ISBN10: 1405136537
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-12
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Written by some of todays most distinguished scholars representing a wide variety of academic disciplines, methods, and schools of thought, this two-volume set moves beyond analytic and continental philosophy to also consider the contributions of economics, history, law, political science, and sociology.

Author Biography

Robert E. 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 at 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 Notes on Contributors

Disciplinary Contributions

Analytical philosophy

Continental Philosophy

History

Sociology

Economics

International Political Economy

Political Science

International Relations

Legal studies

Major Ideologies

Anarchism

Conservatism

Cosmpolitanism

Feminism

Liberalism

Marxism

Fundamentalisms

Socialism

Special Topics

Autonomy

Civil Society

Community and Multiculturalism

Contract & Consent

Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law

Corporatism and Syndicalism

Criminal Justice

Democracy

Dirty Hands

Discourse

Distributive Justice

Efficiency

Environmentalism

Equality

Federalism

Historical Justice

Human Rights

International Distributive Justice

Intellectual Property

Just War

Legitimacy

Liberty

Personhood

Power

Property

Republicanism

Responsibility: Personal, Collective, Corporate

Rights

Secession and Nationalism

Sociobiology

Sovereignty and Humanitarian Military Intervention

State

States of Emergency

Toleration

Totalitarianism

Trust and Social Capital

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