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Author:   David Boucher ,  Paul Kelly
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780415108461

ISBN 10:   0415108462
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   20 October 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of contributors, Preface, 1. The social contract and its critics: an overview, 2. Hobbes’s contractarianism: a comparative analysis, 3. John Locke: social contract versus political anthropology, 4. Locke’s contract in context, 5. History, reason and experience: Hume’s arguments against contract theories, 6. Rousseau, social contract and the modern Leviathan, 7. Kant on the social contract, 8. Hegel’s critique of the theory of social contract, 9. Marx against the social contract, 10. Contractarianism and international political theory, 11. Women, gender and contract: feminist interpretations, 12. Gauthier’s contractarian morality, 13. Justifying ‘justice’: rianism, communitarianism and the foundations of contemporary liberalism, 14. Economic justice: contractarianism and Rawls’s difference principle, Index

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David Boucher (University of Wales, Swansea), Paul Kelly (London School of Economics)

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