The social contract from Hobbes to Rawls
By: edited by David Boucher and Paul Kelly
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780203392928
Subjects: Teoria politica; Reference; Government; National; The State; Social contract; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Essays; General; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: The social contract and its critics: an overview / David Boucher and Paul Kelly; title: Hobbes's contractarianism: a comparative analysis / Murray Forsyth; title: John Locke: social contract versus political anthropology / Jeremy Waldron; title: Locke's contract in context / Martyn P. Thompson; title: History, reason and experience: Hume's arguments against contract theories / Dario Castiglione; title: Rousseau, social contract and the modern Leviathan / Jeremy Jennings; title: Kant on the social contract / Howard Williams; title: Hegel's critique of the theory of social contract / Bruce Haddock; title: Marx against the social contract / Lawrence Wilde; title: Contractarianism and international political theory / John Charvet; title: Women, gender and contract: feminist interpretations / Diana Coole; title: Gauthier's contractarian morality / Margaret Moore; title: Justifying 'justice': contractarianism, communitarianism and the foundations of contemporary liberalism / Paul Kelly; title: Economic justice: contractarianism and Rawls's difference principle / Rex Martin.