Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide

Lester H. Hunt

ISBN 10: 0470675012 / ISBN 13: 9780470675014

Editore: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

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• Titolo: Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide
• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0470675012
• ISBN 13: 9780470675014
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick’s highly influential 1974 work on free-market libertarianism—considered one of the most important and influential works of political philosophy published in the latter half of the 20th-century.

• Makes accessible all the major ideas and arguments presented in Nozick’s complex masterpiece
• Explains, as well as critiques, Robert Nozick’s theory of free market libertarianism
• Enables a new generation of readers to draw their own conclusions about the wealth of timely ideas on individualism and libertarian philosophy
• Indicates where Nozick’s theory has explanatory power, where it is implausible, and where there are loose ends with further work to be done

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Lester H. Hunt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Origins of Virtue (1991) and Character and Culture (1997).

Lester H. Hunt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is considered one of the great classics of twentieth-century analytic political philosophy. Yet whether due to the complexity and profundity of Nozick's thoughts--or the occasional confusion in their presentation--this influential masterpiece remains exceedingly difficult to penetrate for many readers. To remedy this. Anarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ideas expressed in Robert Nozick's compelling defense of free-market libertarianism. Author Lester Hint's goals arc twofold: one is to interpret and explain Nozick's analytical arguments and to shed new light on some of the book's more difficult passages: the other is to engage critically with the ideas presented in the book. Hunt also points out what he sees as the strengths and weaknesses of Nozick's overarching argument in favor of a minimal state, indicating where a theory has explanatory power, where it is implausible, and where he feels further work is necessitated. He also indicates surprising connections in the test and suggests "friendly amendments," additions to a particular theory or argument that might strengthen it. Illuminating and thought-provoking, Anarchy State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide allows a new generation of readers to draw their own conclusions about the wealth of timely ideas on individualism and libertarian philosophy put forth by one of the most important and influential thinkers of the modern age.
Lester H. Hunt is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Nietzsche and the Origins of Virtue (1991) and Character and Culture (1997).