Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology

ROBERT E. GOODIN is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political Theory at Australian National University and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. The Founding Editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy, he has published many books, including A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2012, with P. Pettit). His book Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom (2008 with J.M. Rice, A. Parpo, and L. Eriksson) was awarded the International Social Science Council's Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research. PHILIP PETTIT is L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Working in moral and political philosophy, and on background issues in the philosophy of mind, he is the author of a number of books, including On the People's Terms, which won the David and Elaine Spitz prize for 2014, and The Birth of Ethics, which appeared in 2018.

• Preface ixPart I Doing Political Philosophy 11 Realism and Moralism in Political Theory 3Bernard Williams2 What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice? 13Amartya Sen3 Utopophobia 26David Estlund4 Political Political Theory: An Inaugural Lecture 37Jeremy WaldronPart II State and Society 535 The State 55Quentin Skinner6 State Simplification 77James C. Scott7 The Liberal State 105Catharine A. Mackinnon8 The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory 116Jon Elster9 Invoking Civil Society 130Charles TaylorPart III Democracy 14110 The Public Sphere 143Jürgen Habermas11 Procedural Democracy 147Robert A. Dahl12 Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy 165Joshua Cohen13 Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas or a Politics of Presence? 177Anne Phillips14 A “Selection Model” of Political Representation 188Jane MansbridgePart IV Justice 20715 Justice as Fairness 209John Rawls16 Nozick’s Entitlements 224Onora O’neill17 Justice Engendered 233Martha Minow18 Political Responsibility and Structural Injustice 253Iris Marion Young19 Superseding Historic Injustice 263Jeremy WaldronPart V Rights 27920 Are There Any Natural Rights? 281H. L. A. Hart21 Taking Rights Seriously 289Ronald M. Dworkin22 Basic Rights 301Henry Shue23 The Dark Side of Human Rights 315Onora O’neill24 A Defense of Abortion 324Judith Jarvis Thomson25 Justice and Minority Rights 334Will KymlickaPart VI Liberty 35726 Two Concepts of Liberty 359Isaiah Berlin27 What’s Wrong with Negative Liberty? 376Charles Taylor28 A Third Concept of Liberty 386Quentin Skinner29 Libertarian Paternalism 403Richard H. Thaler And Cass R. Sunstein30 Political Liberalism and Religion: On Separation and Establishment 408Cécile LabordePart VII Equality 42131 Complex Equality 423Michael Walzer32 Equality of What? 439Amartya Sen33 Equality and Priority 450Derek Parfit34 Chance, Choice, and Justice 461Brian Barry35 What Is the Point of Equality? 471Elizabeth S. AndersonPart VIII Oppression 50136 Power, Right, Truth 503Michel Foucault37 The Domination Contract 511Charles Mills38 Race, Sex, and Indifference 525Carole Pateman39 Respecting Beliefs and Rebuking Rushdie 545Peter Jones40 The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom 561G. A. Cohen41 What’s Wrong with Colonialism 577Lea YpiPart IX International Affairs 59542 Just War: The Case of World War II 597G. E. M. Anscombe43 National Self‐determination 609Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz44 The Ethical Significance of Nationality 622David Miller45 The Romance of the Nation‐State 632David Luban46 Democracy: From City‐States to a Cosmopolitan Order? 636David Held47 Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Postwestphalian World 658Nancy Fraser48 Migration and Poverty 672Thomas Pogge49 Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective 682Brian BarryIndex 697