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Description
Elaborating on and defending a rigorous, rights-based libertarianism, Mark D. Friedman here develops the seminal ideas articulated by Robert Nozick in his landmark work Anarchy, State and Utopia. Consolidating more than three decades of scholarly and popular writing to have emerged in the wake of Nozick's text, Friedman offers a 21st-century defense of the minimal libertarian state. In the course of this analysis, and drawing on further insights offered by the work of F.A. Hayek, Nozick's Libertarian Project shows that natural rights libertarianism can offer convincing answers to the fundamental questions that lie at the heart of political theory. The book also rebuts many of the most common criticisms to have been levelled at this worldview, including those from left libertarians and from egalitarians such as as G.A. Cohen.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Natural Rights Libertarianism
1.The Ethical Foundation of Natural Rights
2. The Entitlement Theory
3. Critiques of Lockean Appropriation
4. Justifying the Minimal State
5. Property Rights, Capitalism and the Rule of Law
6. Answering the Critics: the Implications and Boundaries of Natural Rights
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
Published | Dec 24 2012 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9781441102973 |
Imprint | Continuum |
Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
Series | Continuum Studies in Political Philosophy |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
About the contributors
Reviews
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Author's interview on Kosmos online is now available as a podcast/ transcript on the Kosmos website: http://www.kosmosonline.org/group-post/podcast-mark-friedman-nozicks-libertarian-project.
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Nozick's Libertarian Project gives a good overview of many of the arguments in ASU.
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Friedman's book is a serious attempt to defend and develop Nozick's work. It is ambitious, well-informed, packed full of arguments, and attacks problems from different angles and with varied solutions. His solutions and his arguments are not always successful, especially where they depend upon appeal to contested intuitions, but when they fail, they are usually instructive. The book is clearly written and remarkably compact. It is an enjoyable and enlightening read.
Danny Frederick, Reason Papers