Contemporary political philosophy : an anthology / edited by Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit. - 2nd ed. - xiv, 754 p. - Blackwell philosophy anthologies . - Blackwell philosophy anthologies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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