Consent Matters

Robert Goodin, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University, specializes in political theory and public policy. He was founding Editor of the Journal of Political Philosophy and General Editor of the eleven-volume Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. A Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, he has been awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science and the Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.

• Preface PART I: THE NATURE OF CONSENT 1: Introduction 2: Consenting, Assenting and Promising PART II: CONSENT IN OPERATION 3: Modes of Consenting 4: Mistakes in Consenting 5: Consenting Without Knowing 6: Evoking and Invoking Consent 7: Revoking Consent PART III: SPECIAL CASES 8: Consent of the Unconscious and the Incompetent: Kinky Sex 9: Consent of the Mute: Medical Interventions in Hunger Strikes 10: Consent by Extension: Voting and Political Authority 11: Epilogue: Consent in Its Place References

In his thought-provoking new book, Consent Matters, Goodin's aim is to "describe the existing social practice of seeking and giving, receiving and acting upon consent" in general...Goodin also refreshingly reminds his readers that just because you have someone's consent to do something, this does not actually give you a reason to do it.