1st Edition

Debates in Contemporary Political Philosophy An Anthology

Edited By Derek Matravers, Jonathan Pike Copyright 2003
464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

This textbook reflects the buoyant state of contemporary political philosophy, and the development of the subject in the past two decades. It includes seminal papers on fundamental philosophical issues such as: the nature of social explanation distributive justice liberalism and communitarianism citizenship and multiculturalism nationalism democracy criminal justice. A range of views is... Read more
Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, Part 1 The philosophy of social explanation, Part 2 Distributive justice, Part 3 Liberalism and communitarianism, Part 4 Citizenship and multiculturalism, Part 5 Nationalism, Part 6 Democracy, Part 7 Punishment, Index

Biography

Jonathan Pike is Lecturer and Staff Tutor at the Open University
Derek Matravers is senior lecturer at the Open University. He is author of Art and Emotions (1998)

'The list of contributors is impressive ... should be well-received by both students and scholars alike.' - Matthew Webb, Australian Journal of Political Science