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Anarchy, State, and Utopia
An Advanced Guide1. Aufl.
24,99 € |
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Verlag: | Wiley-Blackwell |
Format: | EPUB |
Veröffentl.: | 08.04.2015 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781118880609 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 240 |
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Beschreibungen
<i>Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide</i> 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.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Makes accessible all the major ideas and arguments presented in Nozick’s complex masterpiece</li> <li>Explains, as well as critiques, Robert Nozick’s theory of free market libertarianism</li> <li>Enables a new generation of readers to draw their own conclusions about the wealth of timely ideas on individualism and libertarian philosophy</li> <li>Indicates where Nozick’s theory has explanatory power, where it is implausible, and where there are loose ends with further work to be done</li> </ul>
<p>Acknowledgments vi</p> <p>1 Nozick’s Introduction and Preface 1</p> <p>2 Ethical Bearings 9</p> <p>3 The Experience Machine 40</p> <p>4 Why State of Nature Theory? 54</p> <p>5 The Invisible Hand and the Justification of the State 70</p> <p>6 Risk, Fear, and Procedural Rights 85</p> <p>7 Has the Dominant Protective Association Become a State? 125</p> <p>8 Distributive Justice 154</p> <p>9 The Search for Utopia 200</p> <p>Index 000</p>
<b>Lester H. Hunt</b> is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of <i>Nietzsche and the Origins of Virtue</i> (1991) and <i>Character and Culture</i> (1997).