Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 063119780X
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Robert Nozicka s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful, philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age ---- liberal, socialist and conservative.

The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Author: Ralf M. Bader
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521197767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
This Companion presents a detailed assessment of Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia and analyses its contribution to political philosophy.

Robert Nozick

Author: Jonathan Wolff
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0745680437
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia is one of the works which dominates contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a minimal `nightwatchman' state and challenges the views of many contemporary philosophers, most notably John Rawls. Jonathan Wolff's new book is the first full-length study of Nozick's work and of the debates to which it has given rise. He situates Nozick's work in the context of current debates and examines the traditions which have influenced his thought. He then critically reconstructs the key arguments of Anarchy, State and Utopia, focusing on Nozick's Doctrine of Rights, his Derivation of the Minimal State, and his Entitlement Theory of Justice. The book concludes by assessing Nozick's place in contemporary political philosophy.

Examined Life

Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671725017
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 326

Book Description
An exploration of topics of everyday importance in the Socratic tradition.

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
ISBN: 9780465097203
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
Winner of the 1975 National Book Award, this brilliant and widely acclaimed book is a powerful philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age--liberal, socialist, and conservative.

Philosophical Explanations

Author: Robert Nozick
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674664791
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 788

Book Description
Nozick develops new views on philosophy’s central topics and weaves them into a unified perspective. He ranges widely over philosophy’s fundamental concerns: the identity of the self, knowledge and skepticism, free will, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, the foundations of ethics, the meaning of life.

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Author: Lester H. Hunt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118880609
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick’s highly influential 1974 work on free-market libertarianism—considered one of the most important and influential works of political philosophy published in the latter half of the 20th-century. Makes accessible all the major ideas and arguments presented in Nozick’s complex masterpiece Explains, as well as critiques, Robert Nozick’s theory of free market libertarianism Enables a new generation of readers to draw their own conclusions about the wealth of timely ideas on individualism and libertarian philosophy Indicates where Nozick’s theory has explanatory power, where it is implausible, and where there are loose ends with further work to be done

Robert Nozick

Author: David Schmidtz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521006712
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
A 2002 introductory volume to Robert Nozick in a new series, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus.

A Theory of Justice

Author: John RAWLS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674042603
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 624

Book Description
Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.

Robert Nozick

Author: Alan Lacey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317489985
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Although best known for the hugely influential Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick (1938-2002) eschewed the label 'political philosopher' because the vast majority of his writings and attention have focused on other areas. Indeed the breadth of Nozick's work is perhaps greater than that of any other contemporary philosopher. This book is the first to give full and proper discussion of Nozick's philosophy as a whole, including his influential work on the theory of knowledge, his notion of 'tracking the truth', his metaphysical writings on personal identity and free will, his evolutionary account of rationality, his varying treatments of Newcomb's paradox and his ideas on the meaning of life. Illuminating and informative, the book will be welcomed as an authoritative guide to Nozick's philosophical thinking.