ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is a comprehensive, definitive reference work, providing an up-to-date survey of the field, charting its history and key figures and movements, and addressing enduring questions as well as contemporary research. Features unique to the Companion are:

  • an extensive coverage of the history of social and political thought, including separate chapters on the development of political thought in the Islamic world, India, and China as well in modern Germany, France, and Britain
  • a focus on the core concepts and the normative foundations of social and political theory
  • a seven-chapter section devoted exclusively to distributive justice, the central issue of political philosophy since Rawls' Theory of Justice
  • extensive coverage of global justice and international issues, which recently have emerged as vital topics
  • an eight-chapter section on issues in social and political philosophy.

The Companion is divided into eight thematic sections: The History of Social and Political Theory; Political Theories and Ideologies; Normative Foundations; The National State and Beyond; Distributive Justice; Political Concepts; Concepts and Methods in Social Philosophy; Issues in Social and Political Philosophy.

Comprised of sixty-nine newly commissioned essays by leading scholars from throughout the world, The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is the most comprehensive and authoritative resource in social and political philosophy for students and scholars.

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Part I THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THEORY

chapter 1|11 pages

PLATO’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

chapter 3|11 pages

AQUINAS

chapter 4|11 pages

MEDIEVAL POLITICAL THOUGHT

chapter 5|12 pages

MACHIAVELLI

chapter 6|12 pages

HOBBES

chapter 7|11 pages

LOCKE

chapter 8|10 pages

ROUSSEAU

chapter 9|11 pages

HUME AND SMITH ON JUSTICE

chapter 10|11 pages

KANT

chapter 11|10 pages

HEGEL

chapter 12|11 pages

MILL

chapter 13|11 pages

MARX

chapter 15|11 pages

CONTINENTAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

chapter 17|11 pages

THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF CHINA

chapter 18|12 pages

INDIAN POLITICAL THEORY

chapter 19|11 pages

ISLAMIC POLITICAL THOUGHT

part |2 pages

Part II POLITICAL THEORIES AND IDEOLOGIES

chapter 20|14 pages

ANARCHISM

chapter 21|12 pages

LIBERALISM

chapter 22|11 pages

CONSERVATISM

chapter 23|12 pages

REPUBLICANISM

chapter 26|12 pages

ENVIRONMENTALISM

part |2 pages

Part III NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS

chapter 27|12 pages

CONTRACTARIANISM

chapter 30|11 pages

PERFECTIONISM

chapter 31|11 pages

PLURALISM

chapter 33|12 pages

NATURAL LAW AND RIGHTS THEORY

part |2 pages

Part IV DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE

chapter 34|12 pages

LUCK EGALITARIANISM

chapter 35|11 pages

THE DIFFERENCE PRINCIPLE

chapter 36|9 pages

LEFT LIBERTARIANISM

chapter 37|12 pages

LIBERTARIANISM

chapter 38|11 pages

DESERT

chapter 39|12 pages

NEEDS AND DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE

chapter 41|14 pages

INTERGENERATIONAL DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE

part |2 pages

Part V THE NATIONAL STATE AND BEYOND

chapter 42|11 pages

NATIONALISM

chapter 43|11 pages

HUMAN RIGHTS AND COSMOPOLITANISM

chapter 44|12 pages

MULTICULTURALISM

chapter 45|9 pages

GLOBAL JUSTICE AND POLITICS

chapter 46|11 pages

JUSTICE AND BORDERS

chapter 47|12 pages

WAR

part |2 pages

Part VI POLITICAL CONCEPTS

chapter 48|11 pages

EQUALITY

chapter 49|11 pages

FREEDOM

chapter 50|12 pages

AUTONOMY

chapter 51|11 pages

POWER

chapter 52|12 pages

AUTHORITY AND LEGITIMACY

chapter 53|10 pages

DEMOCRACY

chapter 54|11 pages

RIGHTS

chapter 55|12 pages

TOLERATION

part |2 pages

Part VII APPROACHES

chapter 56|13 pages

SOCIAL EVOLUTION

chapter 58|12 pages

POSTMODERNISM AND POLITICS

chapter 59|12 pages

SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY

chapter 60|15 pages

RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY

chapter 61|13 pages

DISCOURSE THEORY

part |2 pages

Part VIII ISSUES IN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

chapter 62|11 pages

EDUCATION

chapter 63|12 pages

HEALTH

chapter 64|11 pages

MARRIAGE, SEX, AND THE FAMILY

chapter 65|10 pages

WORK

chapter 66|12 pages

PUNISHMENT

chapter 67|11 pages

TERRORISM

chapter 68|12 pages

PATERNALISM, MORALISM, AND MARKETS