7/6/2023 0 Comments Robert nozick 1974Early hailed as "complex, sophisticated, ingenious" ( Economist), Anarchy, State, and Utopia remains "a classic of modern political philosophy. Those individual rights-that freedom-is paramount and the state must always be kept minimal to ensure that individual rights are not threatened. Otherwise, people should essentially be free to live as they wish. Nozick argues that the only legitimate rule of the state is to protect people from aggression through the military, police and courts. It is certainly, and by far, one of the most influential philosophical books of the 20th century" (Hunt, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1). It "won the National Book Award in 1975 and in 2008 was listed by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since WWII. "Nozick's book is a major event in contemporary political philosophy" ( New York Review of Books). National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Nozick's powerful and widely influential philosophical argument for broad individual rights, his "complex, sophisticated, ingenious" libertarian reply to John Rawls' Theory of Justice (1971), and winner of the 1975 U.S. "ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY": FIRST EDITION OF NOZICK'S ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA
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