Political obligation and authority / A. John Simmons --Liberty, coercion, and the limits of the state / Alan Wertheimer -- Justice / Christopher Heath Wellman -- Equality / Richard J. Arneson --Preference, rationality, and democratic theory / Ann E. Cudd -- Marx's legacy / Richard W. Miller -- Feminism and political theory / Virginia Held -- Liberalism and the challenge of communitarianism / James P. Sterba -- Liberal theories and their critics / William Nelson -- Deliberative democracy / James S. Fishkin -- New Enlightenment: critical reflections on the political significance of race / A. Todd Franklin -- Religion and liberal democracy / Christopher J. Eberle
Summary
The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy brings together a collection of newly commissioned essays which examine fundamental issues in social and political theory. Written by leading social and political philosophers, each essay provides a map to the history of the issue at hand and a judicious assessment of the main arguments that have been brought to bear upon that issue
