Three Anarchical Fallacies: An Essay on Political Authority (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521624541)

How is a legitimate state possible? Obedience, coercion, and intrusion are three ideas that seem inseparable from all government and seem to render state authority presumptively illegitimate. This book exposes three fallacies inspired by these ideas and in doing so challenges assumptions shared by liberals, libertarians, cultural conservatives, moderates, and Marxists. In three clear and tightly-argued essays William Edmundson dispels these fallacies and shows that living in a just state remains a worthy ideal. This is an important book for all philosophers, political scientists, and legal theorists as well as readers interested in the views of Rawls, Dworkin, and Nozick, many of whose central ideas are subjected to rigorous critique.

Author: William A. Edmundson
ISBN-10: 0521624541
ISBN-13: 9780521624541
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/28/1998
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 6.28h x 9.32w x 0.67d