Description
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
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vi
1 Nozick’s Introduction and Preface 1
2 Ethical Bearings 9
3 The Experience Machine 40
4 Why State of Nature Theory? 54
5 The Invisible Hand and the Justification of the State 70
6 Risk, Fear, and Procedural Rights 85
7 Has the Dominant Protective Association Become a State? 125
8 Distributive Justice 154
9 The Search for Utopia 200
Index 000
