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.

"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 "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

• Preface ixContributors xiIntroduction 1Robert E. Goodin and Philip PettitPart I: Disciplinary Contributions 1 Analytical philosophy 7Philip Pettit 2 Continental Philosophy 39David West 3 History 72Richard Tuck4 Sociology 90Robert Brown 5 Economics 123Geoffrey Brennan 6 Political science 157Robert E. Goodin7 Legal Studies 183Tom D. Campbell Part II Major Ideologies 8 Anarchism 215Richard Sylvan9 Conservatism 244Anthony Quinton10 Feminism 269Jane J. Mansbridge and Susan Moller Okin 11 Liberaslism 291Alan Ryan 12 Marxism 312Barry Hindess13 Socialism 333Peter SelfPart III Special Topics 14 Autonomy 359Gerald Dworkin15 Community 366Will Kymlicka 16 Contract and consent 379Jean Hampton 17 Constitutionalism and the rule of law 394C. L. Ten18 Corporatism and syndicalism 404Bob Jessop19 Democracy 411Amy Gutmann20 Dirty Hands 422C. A. Coady 21 Discourse 431Ernesto LacLau22 Distributive Justice 438Serge-Christophe Kolm23 Efficiency 462Russell Hardin24 Environmentalism 471John Passmore25 Equality 489Richard J. Arneson26 Federalism 508William H. Riker27 International affairs 515Chirs Brown 28 Legitimacy 527Richard E. Flathman 29 Liberty 534Chandran Kukathas30 Power 548Terence Ball 31 Property 558Andrew Reeve32 Republicanism 568Knud Haakonssen33 Rights 575Jeremy Waldron 34 Secession and nationalism 586Allen Buchanan 35 Sociobiology 597Allan Gibbard 36 The state 611Patrick Dunleavy37 Toleration and fundamentalism 322Stephen Macedo38 Totalitarianism 629Eugene Kamenka39 Trust 638John Dunn40 Virtue 645Michael Slote41 Welfare 651Alan Hamlin Index 665