David Boucher, Paul Kelly

The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Leading scholars from Britain and America survey the history of contractarian thought and the major debates in political theory which surround the notion of social contract. This work aims to be a comprehensive introduction within a broad theoretical framework.

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780415108461
• ISBN-10: 0415108462
• Artikelnr.: 25683296

Autorenporträt

David Boucher (University of Wales, Swansea), Paul Kelly (London School of Economics)

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
Preface
1. The social contract and its critics: an overview
2. Hobbes's contractarianism: a comparative analysis
3. John Locke: social contract versus political anthropology
4. Locke's contract in context
5. History
reason and experience: Hume's arguments against contract theories
6. Rousseau
social contract and the modern Leviathan
7. Kant on the social contract
8. Hegel's critique of the theory of social contract
9. Marx against the social contract
10. Contractarianism and international political theory
11. Women
gender and contract: feminist interpretations
12. Gauthier's contractarian morality
13. Justifying 'justice': rianism
communitarianism and the foundations of contemporary liberalism
14. Economic justice: contractarianism and Rawls's difference principle
Index