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Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Winner of the 1975 National Book Award, this brilliant and widely acclaimed book is a powerful philosophical challenge to the most widely held political and social positions of our age--liberal, socialist, and conservative.
Book Details
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publish Date: Nov 12nd, 2013
- Pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.20in - 5.50in - 1.10in - 0.85lb
- EAN: 9780465051007
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Political• History & Theory - General• Political Freedom
About the Author
Robert Nozick (1938-2002) was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. The author of numerous books including The Examined Life and Philosophical Explanations, Nozick was the recipient of the National Book Award for Anarchy, State, and Utopia.
Praise for this book
"[Nozick's] critique of America's social welfare system...continues to define the debate between conservatives and liberals."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times
"[S]imply and elegantly written, with charm and wit...brilliantly reasoned and contrary."
--Washington Post"This book is the best piece of sustained analytical argument in political philosophy to have appeared for a very long time."--Mind
"A brilliant and important book, bound to contribute notably both to theory and, in time, to the good of society."--W. V. Quine, Harvard University
"[Nozick is] one of the 20th century's greatest political theorists."--The Guardian
"[A] powerful critique of the Left-liberal moral philosophy that underpinned the welfare state...a kind of libertarian manifesto."--Telegraph (UK)
"[Nozick's] faculties of reasoning and imagination are rare; his learning is enormous and interconnected...His ability to surround a subject, to anticipate objections, to see through weakness and pretense, to extract all the implications of a contention, to ask a huge number of relevant questions about a seemingly settled matter, to enlarge into full significance what has only been sketched by others, is amazing."--George Kateb
"A major event in contemporary political philosophy...[Nozick] is always stimulating; an open-minded study of what he has to say could be a healthy tonic for romantic leftists."--Peter Singer, New York Review of Books
"No contemporary philosopher possesses a more imaginative mind, broader interests, or greater dialectical abilities than Robert Nozick."--Harper's
"Complex, sophisticated and ingenious."--The Economist
"[Nozick's] powers of argument are profound, and his insights are at times staggering in their brilliance."--New Republic