Contemporary political philosophy : an anthology / edited by Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Pt. I. State and Society -- 1. The State -- 2. The Social Contract as Ideology -- 3. The Fraternal Social Contract -- 4. Theses on the Theory of the State -- 5. Invoking Civil Society -- 6. Democracy: From City-states to a Cosmopolitan Order? -- Pt. II. Democracy -- 7. The Public Sphere -- 8. Procedural Democracy -- 9. The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory -- 10. Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy -- 11. Preferences and Politics -- 12. Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence? -- Pt. III. Justice -- 13. Justice as Fairness -- 14. Distributive Justice -- 15. The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self -- 16. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship -- 17. The Domain of the Political and Overlapping Consensus -- Pt. IV. Rights -- 18. Citizenship and Social Class -- 19. Are There Any Natural Rights? -- 20. Taking Rights Seriously -- 21. Basic Rights -- 22. A Defense of Abortion -- 23. Justice and Minority Rights -- Pt. V. Liberty -- 24. Two Concepts of Liberty -- 25. What's Wrong with Negative Liberty? -- 26. The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom -- 27. Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom -- Pt. VI. Equality -- 28. The Idea of Equality -- 29. Equality of What? -- 30. Complex Equality -- 31. Justice Engendered -- 32. Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective -- Pt. VII. Oppression -- 33. Power, Right, Truth -- 34. Bearing the Consequences of Belief -- 35. Exploitation, Alternatives and Socialism -- 36. Racism, Sexism, and Preferential Treatment: An Approach to the Topics -- 37. Moral Woman and Immoral Man: A Consideration of the Public-Private Split and Its Political Ramifications -- 38. "Dependency" Demystified: Inscriptions of Power in a Keyword of the Welfare State -- Index.