A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

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.

Preface Contributors Introduction 1 1. Analytical philosophy 7 2. Continental philosophy 39 3. History 72 4. Sociology 90 5. Economics 123 6. Political science 157 7. Legal studies 183 8. Anarchism 215 9. Conservatism 244 10. Feminism 269 11. Liberalism 291 12. Marxism 312 13. Socialism 333 14. Autonomy 359 15. Community 366 16. Contract and consent 379 17. Constitutionalism and the rule of law 394 18. Corporatism and syndicalism 404 19. Democracy 411 20. Dirty hands 422 21. Discourse 431 22. Distributive justice 438 23. Efficiency 462 24. Environmentalism 471 25. Equality 489 26. Federalism 508 27. International affairs 515 28. Legitimacy 527 29. Liberty 534 30. Power 548 31. Property 558 32. Republicanism 568 33. Rights 575 34. Secession and nationalism 586 35. Sociobiology 597 36. The state 611 37. Toleration and fundamentalism 622 38. Totalitarianism 629 39. Trust 638 40. Virtue 645 41. Welfare 651 Index 665

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.

"This volume does contemporary political philosophy proud.... the real quality of the volume like this is a function of its contributions, and the pieces here could hardly be bettered." Utilitas <!––end––>"It will provide an unrivalled overview of the principal positions and debates in political philosophy over the past thirty years or so. It should establish itself as the standatd one–volume reader for some time to come." Daniel Weinstock, University of Montreal