G. A. Cohen

Liberty, Justice and Equality

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Av Christine Sypnowich, Canada) Sypnowich, Christine (Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario

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G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and he was celebrated internationally not only for his penetrating ideas about liberty, justice and equality, but also for his method, a highly original and influential combination of analytical philosophy and Marxism.Christine Sypnowich guides readers through the rich body of Cohen’s work. By identifying five paradoxes in his thought, she explores the origins of his interest in analytical philosophy, his engagement with the ideas of right-wing libertarianism, his critique of John Rawls’s work, his late-career turn to conservatism, and the tension between his preoccupation with individual responsibility and the idea of a socialist ethos. Sypnowich acknowledges the strengths of Cohen’s positions as well as their tensions and flaws, and presents him as a thinker of startling insight.This compelling introduction is a go-to resource for students and scholars of modern political philosophy.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-07-05
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieKey Contemporary Thinkers
Antal sidor288
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781509529940

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"Christine Sypnowich’s impressively well-informed presentation of Jerry Cohen’s exceptional personality and her insightful critical discussion of all key aspects of his work will make readers understand why his unusual combination of radical political views and meticulous prose keeps inspiring so many young philosophers, and not only them."Philippe Van Parijs, University of Louvain"Opening with an engaging biographical account of Cohen’s political and intellectual development, Sypnowich demonstrates how his rigorously analytical quest for the nature of a just society can be structured around a set of tensions – “paradoxes” – with which he so influentially wrestled throughout his life."Hillel Steiner FBA, University of Manchester"A lucid reintroduction of Cohen's work."Canadian Journal of Political Science