Contemporary Political Theory

PART ONE: EGALITARIAN-LIBERALISM Justice as Fairness - John Rawls The Maximin Principle - John c Harsanyi Primary Goods Reconsidered - Richard J Arneson Equality of What? - Alex Callinicos A Question for Egalitarians - John Kekes PART TWO: LIBERTARIANISM The Entitlement Theory of Justice - Robert Nozick How Liberty Upsets Patterns - Eric Mack On Rectification in Nozick's Minimal State - Robert E Litan Justice as Mutual Advantage - David Gauthier A Critique of Justice as Reciprocity - Allen Buchanan PART THREE: COMMUNITARIANISM The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self - Michael J Sandel Liberal Individualism and Liberal Neutrality - Will Kymlicka Complex Equality - Michael Walzer PART FOUR: REPUBLICANISM Freedom as Antipower - Philip Pettit The Republican Critique of Liberalism - Alan Patten Cosmopolitan Republicanism - James Bohman PART FIVE: FEMINISM The Public/Private Dichotomy - Susan Moller Okin The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference - Iris Marion Young Recognition or Redistribution - Nancy Fraser PART SIX: DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY The Deliberative Model - Iris Marion Young Deliberative Democracy Beyond Process - Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson Legitimacy and Economy in Deliberative Democracy - John S Dryzek PART SEVEN: MULTICULTURALISM The Politics of Recognition - Charles Taylor Equality of Difference - Bhikhu Parekh Liberalism and Multiculturalism - Chandran Kukathas

An excellent selection of key pieces that have shaped the debates that dominate contemporary political philosophy. Each section is prefaced with a clear and insightful introduction which gives a valuable commentary on each piece, sets it in its context, and indicates its influence on the field. This book will be a very useful resource for students of these debates from all backgrounds, as well as for the general reader who wants to hear the theoretical voices behind the disputes that shape the current political scene. Dr Catriona McKinnon, Lecturer in Political Philosophy, University of York.