Enquiry Concerning Political Justice - Softcover

Godwin, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140400303 ISBN 13: 9780140400304

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1976

Synopsis

The classic English statement of rational anarchism, attacking government for failing to promote the general good and for systematizing oppression in the name of law and order

About this title

About the Author:

William Godwin, the famous philosopher and novelist, was born in East Anglia in 1756. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was educated to follow in his father's footsteps, but subsequently lost his faith in God. He then devoted himself to writing, expounding his enlightenment and anarchist ideals in novels and essays. In 1797 he married Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist; their daughter would grow up to be Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Godwin died in 1836.

Isaac Kramnick is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell where he has taught since 1972.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1976
• ISBN 10: 0140400303
• ISBN 13: 9780140400304
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 823