Robert Nozick (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus) |
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Edited in part by David Schmidtz, an alumnus of IHS seminars and a former Humane Studies Fellow, this is an introductory volume to Robert Nozick, one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the current age. Nozick, who passed away earlier this year, almost single-handedly made libertarian political philosophy respectable within mainstream academia with the 1974 publication of his now classic Anarchy, State and Utopia, which garnered a National Book Award the following year. Anarchy, State and Utopia argues, among other things, that a distribution of goods is just so long as the distribution was brought about by free exchanges by consenting adults, even if large inequalities emerge from the process. |
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