The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy

PART I

The History of Social and Political Theory

1.      Plato's Political Philosophy

George Klosko

2.      Aristotle's Social and Political Philosophy

Rachana Kamtekar and Jeremy Reid

3.      Aquinas

Paul Sigmund

4.      Medieval Political Thought

Cary J. Nederman

5.      Machiavelli

Vickie B. Sullivan

6.      Hobbes

S. A. Lloyd

7.      Locke

Eric Mack

8.      Rousseau

Christopher Bertram

9.      Hume and Smith on Justice

Stephen Buckle

10.    Kant

Oliver Sensen

11.    Hegel

David Edward Rose

12.    Mill

C.L. Ten

13.    Marx

David Leopold

14.    Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century British Thought

Maria Dimova-Cookson

15.    Continental Political Philosophy

James Bohman

16.    French Political Thought in the Twentieth Century

Jeremy Jennings

17.    Foucault and Political Philosophy

Mark Pennington

18.    The Political Philosophy of China

Tongdong Bai

19.    Indian Political Philosophy

A. Raghuramaraju

20.    Islamic Political Thought

Andrew F. March

PART II

Political Theories and Ideologies

21.    Anarchism

Roderick T. Long

22.    Liberalism

Michael Freeden

23.    Conservatism

John Kekes

24.    Republicanism

Christian Nadeau

25.    Marxism and Contemporary Political Thought

Alex Callinicos

26.    Feminism and the History of Political Philosophy

Penelope Deutscher

27.    Environmentalism

Mathew Humphrey

PART III

Normative Foundations

28.    Contractarianism

Claire Finkelstein

29.    Contractualism and Political Liberalism

Aaron James

30.    Utilitarianism and Consequentialism

Dale E. Miller

31.    Perfectionism

Steven Wall

32.    Pluralism

George Crowder

33.    Virtue Ethics and Political Philosophy

Tristan J. Rogers and Daniel C. Russell

34.    Natural Law and Rights Theory

David S. Oderberg

PART IV

Distributive Justice

35.    Luck Egalitarianism

Zofia Stemplowska

36.    The Difference Principle: Its Content and Justification

Rex Martin

37.    Left Libertarianism

Hillel Steiner

38.    Libertarianism

Billy Christmas

39.    Desert

David Schmidtz

40.    Needs and Distributive Justice

Gillian Brock

41.    The Capability Approach and Distributive Justice

Ingrid Robeyns

42.    Intergenerational Distributive Justice

Clark Wolf

PART V

The National State and Beyond

43.    Nationalism

Arthur Hill and Margaret Moore

44.    Human Rights and Cosmopolitanism

David A. Reidy and Jon Mandle

45.    Multiculturalism

Chandran Kukathas

46.    Global Justice and Politics

Thom Brooks

47.    Justice and Borders

David Miller

48.    War

Fernando R. Tesón

PART VI

Political Concepts

49.    Equality

Thomas Christiano

50.    Freedom

Katrin Flikschuh

51.    Autonomy

Horacio Spector

52.    Power

Peter Morriss and Pamela Pansardi

53.    Authority and Legitimacy

Fabienne Peter

54.    Democracy

Robert B. Talisse

55.    Rights

Jonathan Quong

56.    Toleration

Peter Jones

PART VII

Approaches

57.    Social Evolution

Gerald Gaus and John Thrasher

58.    The Pragmatist Project in Political Philosophy

Cheryl Misak

59.    Postmodernism and Politics

Todd May

60.    Social Choice Theory

Jacob M. Nebel and John A. Weymark

61.    Rational Choice Theory

Peter Vanderschraaf

62.    Discourse Theory

William Rehg

63.    New Diversity Theory

Fred D'Agostino

64.    Political Epistemology

Brian Kogelmann and Aylon Manor

65.    PPE and Political Philosophy

C. M.  Melenovsky

PART VIII

Issues in Social and Political Philosophy

66.    Education

Harry Brighouse

67.    Health

Norman Daniels

68.    Marriage, Sex, and the Family

David Archard

69.    Work

Nien-hê Hsieh and Julie L. Rose

70.    Punishment

Mark R. Reiff

71.    Terrorism

C.A.J. Coady

72.    Paternalism, Moralism, and Markets

Mark D. White

73.    Religion in Public Life

Kevin Vallier

74.    Race and Ethnicity: Their Intersections and Concepts

Naomi Zack

Biography

Gerald F. Gaus was, before his death in 2020, the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and an intellectual giant in the field of political philosophy.  The author of ten books and more than 100 papers, he was best known for his work in the public reason tradition.  An obituary collaboratively written by his colleagues and former students noted that Gaus was interested in teaching us about “the complexities of our social world, rather than looking for opportunities to reinforce our biased ways of understanding it.” 

Fred D’Agostino is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at The University of Queensland (Australia) where he has been President of the Academic Board and Executive Dean of Arts. He was Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and of PPE: Politics, Philosophy and Economics. His best-known work is Free Public Reason (OUP, 1996), and he has worked in political philosophy and scientific method. His recent work has been on complexity and on the scholarly and scientific disciplines.

Ryan Muldoon is Professor of Philosophy and Director of PPE at the University at Buffalo.  He is the author of Social Contract Theory for a Diverse World: Beyond Tolerance (Routledge, 2016).  His work focuses on diversity and dynamism in liberal political philosophy.

“A wonderful resource: comprehensive, clear and authoritative.” - Dr Kai Spiekermann, Professor of Political Philosophy, London School of Economics