A Companion To Contemporary Political Philosophy 2E 2V Set

The second edition of this successful handbook has been expanded with the addition of over 15 new chapters and revision of the earlier ones, some by new authors. The 55 chapters provide an overview of their topic, with discussion of the current state of research, including recent specialists and controversies, and concluding with a lengthy bibliography. Many of the new chapters are concerned with issues of international relations and global justice. The chapters are grouped into three sections: disciplines--including history, economics, and legal studies; major ideologies; and special topics. A sampling of chapter topics in the latter section includes ethics, welfare, totalitarianism, toleration, sociobiology, rights, responsibility, and just war. The contributors are academics in fields that include politics, history, sociology, and international affairs in Australia, Canada, the U.S., and Europe. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robert E. Goodin is a Distinguished Professor jointly of Philosophy and of Social & Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. General Editor of a 10-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science and founding editor of Blackwell’s Journal of Political Philosophy, Goodin served as co-editor of the British Journal of Political Science and Associate Editor of Ethics.

Philip Pettit, formerly of the Australian National University, is now L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University. He works in moral and political theory and on background issues in philosophical psychology and social ontology.

Thomas Pogge is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.