![]() "A brilliant and important book, bound to contribute notably both to theory and, in time, to the good of society."- W. " faculties of reasoning and imagination are rare his learning is enormous and interconnected.His ability to surround a subject, to anticipate objections, to see through weakness and pretense, to extract all the implications of a contention, to ask a huge number of relevant questions about a seemingly settled matter, to enlarge into full significance what has only been sketched by others, is amazing."- George Kateb "This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time."- Mind " powerful critique of the Left-liberal moral philosophy that underpinned the welfare state.a kind of libertarian manifesto."- Telegraph (UK) Anarchy, state, and utopia / Main Author: Nozick, Robert Format: Book Language: English Published: New York : Basic Books, 1974 Subjects: State, The. First published in response to John Rawls A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozicks Anarchy, State, and Utopia has since ingrained itself in contemporary. " one of the 20th century's greatest political theorists."- The Guardian Times staggering in their brilliance."- New Republic " powers of argument are profound, and his insights are at Sophisticated and ingenious."- The Economist Or greater dialectical abilities than Robert Nozick."- Harper's "imply and elegantly written, with charm and wit.brilliantly reasoned and contrary."- Washington PostĬontemporary philosopher possesses a more imaginative mind, broader interests, " critique of America's social welfare ntinues to define the debate between conservatives and liberals."- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times ![]() Tonic for romantic leftists."- Peter Singer, New York Review of Books Stimulating an open-minded study of what he has to say could be a healthy Very good in like jacket.Major event in contemporary political philosophy. David Brumble, Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, with date to front free endpaper (text block is otherwise bright and unmarked) edgewear to jacket, including a few small closed tears (without loss), with light creasing and toning, and sunning to spine. Minor sunning to boards and dusting to page block name of H. Original brown cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Indeed, Nozick's masterpiece has been translated and sold throughout the world and remains a leading work of libertarian social, political, and philosophical thought. Anarchy, State and Utopia would go on to win the prestigious National Book Award in the category of Philosophy and Religion and was hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books of the twentieth century. Nozick's argument was eventually set forth in Anarchy, State and Utopia, first published by Basic Books in 1974 Walzer's side of the argument was later published in his Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (1983). Hayek, Nozick's classic statement of entitlement theory was the product of a semester-long course that he taught with Professor Michael Walzer at Harvard University in 1971, and which was structured as a debate between the two philosophers. Influenced by the works and thought of John Locke, Immanuel Kant, and F. In support of his "night-watchman state" Nozick forcefully illustrates how a minimalist state arises naturally from a Lockean state of nature and how the expansion of state authority beyond such minimalist constraints is philosophically unjustified. "Individuals have rights," Nozick argues from his opening sentence, "and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating their rights." In opposition to Rawls's highly acclaimed 1971 work A Theory of Justice, Nozick argues for a minimalist state limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, and enforcement of contracts. In Anarchy, State and Utopia Nozick offers a powerful philosophical challenge to the reigning political and social views of our day-liberal, socialist, and conservative. Exceptional first edition of Robert Nozick's (1938-2002) towering libertarian response to John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971) and winner of the prestigious National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion. Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia is, to date, the most sophisticated philosophical treatment of libertarian theory and themes.
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