The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls

Author:   David Boucher ,  Paul Kelly
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780415108454


Pages:   292
Publication Date:   03 November 1994
Format:   Hardback
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The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls


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The concept of a social contract has been central to political thought since the 17th century. Contract theory has been used to justify political authority, to account for the origin of the state and to provide foundations for moral values and a just society. In this collection, leading scholars from Britain and America survey the history of contractarian thought and the major debates in political theory which surround the notion of social contract. They examine the critical reception of the ideas of thinkers such as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx, and include the more contemporary ideas of Rawls and Gauthier. The collection also incorporates discussions of international relations theory and feminist responses to contractarianism. Challenging the notion that there is a single tradition that can be traced back beyond Hobbes to classical Greece, three distinct traditions are identified, alongside a series of anti-contractarian arguments which have played a role in shaping the debate to the present day. Together, these essays aim to provide a comprehensive introduction to theories and critiques of the social contract, within a broad political theoretical framework.

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Author:   David Boucher ,  Paul Kelly
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780415108454


ISBN 10:   0415108454
Pages:   292
Publication Date:   03 November 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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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