A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

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.

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