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Large, sturdy book, quality brown cloth, bright green lettering on spine, 367 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar with white background, horizontal color bars in purple, brown and gold at top front and spine, praise on back white from W.V. Quine at Harvard University, Gilbert H. Harmon at Princeton University. DJ has two 1/4" tear at top back edge, one with crease. Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book.
Seller Inventory # 060977
- Title
- Anarchy, State and Utopia
- Author
- Nozick, Robert
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Publication year
- 1975
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0465002706
- ISBN 13
- 9780465002702
- Edition
- 4th Edition
"Individuals have rights," writes Nozick in his opening sentence, "and there are things no person or group may do to them without violating their rights." The work that follows, striking for its wit, depth of insight, and skill of argument, is perhaps the most sophisticated defense of the "minimal state" in contemporary thought.
The state is justified, says Nozick, only when it is severely limited to the narrow function of protection against force, theft, and fraud, and to the enforcement of contracts. Any more extensive activities by the state, as Nozick brilliantly demonstrates, will inevitably violate individuals' rights. Two noteworthy implications emerge which are then fully explored: "The State may not use its coercive apparatus for the purpose of getting some citizens to aid others, or in order to prohibit activities to people for their own good or protection."
Among the many achievements of this unusually rich work are: an important new theory of distributive justice; a model of utopia which is favorable to utopian experimentation and which further supports the theory of the minimal state; and, finally, an integration of ethics, legal philosophy, and economic theory into a profound and unified position in political philosophy which will be discussed for years to come.
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Review
"...complex, sophisticated and ingenious." Economist
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Callaghan Books South
New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since January 8, 1999
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