ABSTRACT
Radical detachment from biology is common in political philosophy, especially on the Left. Anthony GiddC11s 1:\ is a leading political theorist of Clinton and Blair's 'Third 'Vay' towards, or away from, state wdfitre. Giddens has no d(·finition of ethnicity, nor a theory of ethnic behaviour, though he is aware of ethnic solidarity and conflict. II Separately, he also discusses some mailers related to reproduction; hut Ill' does 1I0t link the two
