Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Robert Nozick

ISBN 10: 0465002706 / ISBN 13: 9780465002702

Edité par Basic Books, 1974

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Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to boards due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.62.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Anarchy, State, and Utopia
• Éditeur: Basic Books
• Date de parution: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0465002706
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780465002702
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Good

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Synopsis

Book by Robert Nozick

Présentation de l'éditeur

Robert Nozick′s Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful,philosophical challenge to the most widely held political andsocial positions of our age –– liberal, socialist andconservative.

"Individuals have rights," Nozick writes in his openingsentence, "and there are things no person or group may do to themwithout violating their rights." The work that follows is asophisticated and passionate defence of the rights of theindividual as opposed to the state.

The author argues that the state is justified only when it isseverely limited to the narrow function of protection againstforce, theft and fraud and to the enforcement of contracts. Anymore extensive activities by the state, he demonstrates, willinevitably violate individual rights.

Among the many achievements of the work are an important newtheory of distributive justice, a model of utopia, and anintegration of ethics, legal philosophy and economic theory into aprofound position in political philosophy which will be discussedfor years to come.