ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy 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 seven-chapter 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, which recently have emerged as vital topics
  • an eight-chapter section on issues in social and political philosophy.

The Companion is 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; Issues in Social and Political Philosophy.

Comprised of sixty-nine newly commissioned essays by leading scholars from throughout the world, The Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy is the most comprehensive and authoritative resource in social and political philosophy for students and scholars.

part |214 pages

The History of Social and Political Theory

chapter |11 pages

Plato's Political Philosophy

ByGeorge Klosko

chapter |11 pages

Aristotle's Social and Political Philosophy

ByRachana Kamtekar

chapter |11 pages

Aquinas

ByPaul Sigmund

chapter |11 pages

Medieval Political Thought

ByCary J. Nederman

chapter |12 pages

Machiavelli

ByVickie B. Sullivan

chapter |12 pages

Hobbes

ByS.A. Lloyd

chapter |11 pages

Locke

ByEric Mack

chapter |10 pages

Rousseau

ByChristopher Bertram

chapter |11 pages

Hume and Smith on Justice

ByStephen Buckle

chapter |11 pages

Kant

ByOliver Sensen

chapter |10 pages

Hegel

ByDavid Edward Rose

chapter |11 pages

Mill

ByC.L. Ten

chapter |11 pages

Marx

ByDavid Leopold

chapter |12 pages

Late Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century British Thought

ByMaria Dimova-Cookson

chapter |11 pages

Continental Political Philosophy

ByJames Bohman

chapter |12 pages

French Political Thought in the Twentieth Century

ByJeremy Jennings

chapter |11 pages

The Political Philosophy of China

ByTongdong Bai

chapter |12 pages

Indian Political Theory

ByA. Raghuramaraju

chapter |11 pages

Islamic Political Thought

ByAndrew F. March

part |88 pages

Political Theories and Ideologies

chapter |14 pages

Anarchism

ByRoderick T. Long

chapter |12 pages

Liberalism

ByMichael Freeden

chapter |11 pages

Conservatism

ByJohn Kekes

chapter |12 pages

Republicanism

ByChristian Nadeau

chapter |12 pages

Marxism and Contemporary Political Thought

ByAlex Callinicos

chapter |13 pages

Feminism and the History of Political Philosoph

ByPenelope Deutscher

chapter |12 pages

Environmentalism

ByMathew Humphrey

part |84 pages

Normative Foundations

chapter |12 pages

Contractarianism

ByClaire Finkelstein

chapter |12 pages

Contractualism and Political Liberalism

ByAaron James

chapter |13 pages

Utilitarianism and Consequentialism

ByDale E. Miller

chapter |11 pages

Perfectionism

BySteven Wall

chapter |11 pages

Pluralism

ByGeorge Crowder

chapter |11 pages

Virtue Ethics and Political Philosophy

ByDaniel C. Russell

chapter |12 pages

Natural Law and Rights Theory

ByDavid S. Oderberg

part |93 pages

Distributive Justice

chapter |12 pages

Luck Egalitarianism

ByZofia Stemplowska

chapter |11 pages

The Difference Principle

ByRex Martin

chapter |9 pages

Left Libertarianism

ByHillel Steiner

chapter |12 pages

Libertarianism

ByJohn Meadowcroft

chapter |11 pages

Desert

ByDavid Schmidtz

chapter |12 pages

Needs and Distributive Justice

ByGillian Brock

chapter |11 pages

The Capability Approach (and Social Justice)

ByIngrid Robeyns

chapter |13 pages

Intergenerational Distributive Justice

ByClark Wolf

part |67 pages

The National State and Beyond

chapter |11 pages

Nationalism

ByMargaret Moore

chapter |11 pages

Human Rights and Cosmopolitanism

ByDavid A. Reidy

chapter |12 pages

Multiculturalism

ByChandran Kukathas

chapter |9 pages

Global Justice and Politics

ByThom Brooks

chapter |11 pages

Justice and Borders

ByDavid Miller

chapter |11 pages

War

ByFernando R. Tesón

part |91 pages

Political Concepts

chapter |11 pages

Equality

ByThomas Christiano

chapter |11 pages

Freedom

ByKatrin Flikschuh

chapter |12 pages

Autonomy

ByHoracio Spector

chapter |11 pages

Power

ByPeter Morriss

chapter |12 pages

Authority and Legitimacy

ByFabienne Peter

chapter |10 pages

Democracy

ByRobert B. Talisse

chapter |11 pages

Rights

ByJonathan Quong

chapter |11 pages

Toleration

ByPeter Jones

part |77 pages

Approaches

chapter |13 pages

Social Evolution

ByGerald Gaus, John Thrasher

chapter |11 pages

The Pragmatist Project in Political Philosophy

ByCheryl Misak

chapter |12 pages

Postmodernism and Politics

ByTodd May

chapter |12 pages

Social Choice Theory

ByJohn A. Weymark

chapter |15 pages

Rational Choice Theory

ByPeter Vanderschraaf

chapter |12 pages

Discourse Theory

ByWilliam Rehg

part |93 pages

Issues in Social and Political Philosophy

chapter |11 pages

Education

ByHarry Brighouse

chapter |12 pages

Health

ByNorman Daniels

chapter |11 pages

Marriage, Sex, and the Family

ByDavid Archard

chapter |10 pages

Work

ByNien-hê Hsieh

chapter |12 pages

Punishment

ByMark R. Reiff

chapter |11 pages

Terrorism

ByC. A. J. Coady

chapter |12 pages

Paternalism, Moralism, and Markets

ByMark D. White

chapter |12 pages

Religion in Public Life

ByChristopher Eberle, Kevin Vallier