2nd Edition
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy
The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy, Second Edition 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 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.
The Companion ‘s seventy-four commissioned chapters, by leading scholars from throughout the world, are 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; and Issues in Social and Political Philosophy.
Expanded, updated, and revised throughout, this Second Edition includes new chapters on Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE); Political Epistemology; Race and Ethnicity; Power; Foucault; and New Diversity Theory.
PART I
The History of Social and Political Theory
1. Plato's Political Philosophy
George Klosko
2. Aristotle's Social and Political Philosophy
Rachana Kamtekar and Jeremy Reid
3. Aquinas
Paul Sigmund
4. Medieval Political Thought
Cary J Nederman
5. Machiavelli
Vickie B Sullivan
6. Hobbes
S A Lloyd
7. Locke
Eric Mack
8. Rousseau
Christopher Bertram
9. Hume and Smith on Justice
Stephen Buckle
10. Kant
Oliver Sensen
11. Hegel
David Edward Rose
12. Mill
C L Ten
13. Marx
David Leopold
14. Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century British Thought
Maria Dimova-Cookson
15. Continental Political Philosophy
James Bohman
16. French Political Thought in the Twentieth Century
Jeremy Jennings
17. Foucault and Political Philosophy
Mark Pennington
18. The Political Philosophy of China
Tongdong Bai
19. Indian Political Philosophy
A Raghuramaraju
20. Islamic Political Thought
Andrew F March
PART II
Political Theories and Ideologies
21. Anarchism
Roderick T Long
22. Liberalism
Michael Freeden
23. Conservatism
John Kekes
24. Republicanism
Christian Nadeau
25. Marxism and Contemporary Political Thought
Alex Callinicos
26. Feminism and the History of Political Philosophy
Penelope Deutscher
27. Environmentalism
Mathew Humphrey
PART III
Normative Foundations
28. Contractarianism
Claire Finkelstein
29. Contractualism and Political Liberalism
Aaron James
30. Utilitarianism and Consequentialism
Dale E Miller
31. Perfectionism
Steven Wall
32. Pluralism
George Crowder
33. Virtue Ethics and Political Philosophy
Tristan J Rogers and Daniel C Russell
34. Natural Law and Rights Theory
David S Oderberg
PART IV
Distributive Justice
35. Luck Egalitarianism
Zofia Stemplowska
36. The Difference Principle
Rex Martin
37. Left Libertarianism
Hillel Steiner
38. Libertarianism
Billy Christmas
39. Desert
David Schmidtz
40. Needs and Distributive Justice
Gillian Brock
41. The Capability Approach and Distributive Justice
Ingrid Robeyns
42. Intergenerational Distributive Justice
Clark Wolf
PART V
The National State and Beyond
43. Nationalism
Arthur Hill and Margaret Moore
44. Human Rights and Cosmopolitanism
David A Reidy and Jon Mandle
45. Multiculturalism
Chandran Kukathas
46. Global Justice and Politics
Thom Brooks
47. Justice and Borders
David Miller
48. War
Fernando R Tesón
PART VI
Political Concepts
49. Equality
Thomas Christiano
50. Freedom
Katrin Flikschuh
51. Autonomy
Horacio Spector
52. Power
Peter Morriss and Pamela Pansardi
53. Authority and Legitimacy
Fabienne Peter
54. Democracy
Robert B Talisse
55. Rights
Jonathan Quong
56. Toleration
Peter Jones
PART VII
Approaches
57. Social Evolution
Gerald Gaus and John Thrasher
58. The Pragmatist Project in Political Philosophy
Cheryl Misak
59. Postmodernism and Politics
Todd May
60. Social Choice Theory
Jacob M Nebel and John A Weymark
61. Rational Choice Theory
Peter Vanderschraaf
62. Discourse Theory
William Rehg
63. New Diversity Theory
Fred D'Agostino
64. Political Epistemology
Brian Kogelmann and Aylon Manor
65. PPE and Political Philosophy
C. M. Melenovsky
PART VIII
Issues in Social and Political Philosophy
66. Education
Harry Brighouse
67. Health
Norman Daniels
68. Marriage, Sex, and the Family
David Archard
69. Work
Nien-He Hsieh and Julie L Rose
70. Punishment
Mark R Reiff
71. Terrorism
C A J Coady
72. Paternalism, Moralism, and Markets
Mark D White
73. Religion in Public Life
Kevin Vallier
74. Race and Ethnicity: Their Intersections and Concepts
Naomi Zack
Biography
Gerald F. Gaus was, before his death in 2020, the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona and an intellectual giant in the field of political philosophy. The author of ten books and more than 100 papers, he was best known for his work in the public reason tradition. An obituary collaboratively written by his colleagues and former students noted that Gaus was interested in teaching us about “the complexities of our social world, rather than looking for opportunities to reinforce our biased ways of understanding it.”
Fred D’Agostino is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at The University of Queensland (Australia) where he has been President of the Academic Board and Executive Dean of Arts. He was editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and of PPE: Politics, Philosophy and Economics. His best known work is Free Public Reason (OUP, 1996) and he has worked in political philosophy and scientific method. His recent work has been on complexity and on the scholarly and scientific disciplines.
Ryan Muldoon is Professor of Philosophy and Director of PPE at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of Social Contract Theory for a Diverse World: Beyond Tolerance (Routledge, 2016). His work focuses on diversity and dynamism in liberal political philosophy.
“A wonderful resource: comprehensive, clear and authoritative.” - Dr Kai Spiekermann, Professor of Political Philosophy, London School of Economics
