Reading Nozick: Essays on Anarchy, State And, Utopia

"Reading Nozick is a collection of critical essays about one of the most important works of political philosophy published in the 1970s--Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia. Among its many achievements were an important new theory of distributive justice, a model of utopia, and an integration of ethics, legal philosophy and economic theory to form a profound position in political philosophy. The essays deal with the major aspects of Nozick's defence of the minimal state and laissez-faire economy, and include contributions from Bernard Williams, Robert Paul Wolff, Judith Jarvis Thompson, Thomas Nagel, Thomas Scanlon and David Lyons, as well as from Robert Nozick himself. The book provides an excellent introduction to contemporary political philosophy, and is of particular interest to teachers and students of philosophy, political theory, jurisprudence, political economics, sociology and the history of ideas" -- Backcover.