Jonathan S Wolff

Gerald Cohen

… before being appointed to the Chichele chair at Oxford in 1985. Several of his former students, such as Alan Carter, Will Kymlicka, John McMurtry, David Leopold, Michael Otsuka, Seana Shiffrin and Jonathan Wolff have gone on to be important moral and political philosophers in their own righ...

Disadvantage (Oxford Political Theory (Paperback))

What does it mean to be disadvantaged? Is it possible to compare different disadvantages? What should governments do to move their societies in the direction of equality, where equality is to be understood both in distributional and social terms? Linking rigorous analytical philosophical theory with...

Why Read Marx Today?

The fall of the Berlin Wall had enormous symbolic resonance, marking the collapse of Marxist politics and economics. Indeed, Marxist regimes have failed miserably, and with them, it seems, all reason to take the writings of Karl Marx seriously. Jonathan Wolff argues that if we detach Marx the critic...

Political Thought (Oxford Readers)

Human beings live together in societies which, by their very nature, give rise to institutions governing the behavior and freedom of individuals. This raises important questions about how these institutions ought to function, and the extent to which actual systems of government succeed or fail in me...

An Introduction to Political Philosophy

Why should some have the right to pass power?What would happen without government?How much power should the state have?An ideal introduction for students with no background in the subject, An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Third Edition, combines clarity and a conversational style with a thou...

Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy

G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent decades his published writings largely turned away from the history of philosophy, focusing instead o...

Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry

Train crashes cause, on average, a handful of deaths each year in the UK. Technologies exist that would save the lives of some of those who die. Yet these technical innovations would cost hundreds of millions of pounds. Should we spend the money? How can we decide how to trade off life against finan...

Robert Nozick: Property, Justice, and the Minimal State (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is one of the works which dominate contemporary debate in political philosophy. Drawing on traditional assumptions associated with individualism and libertarianism, Nozick mounts a powerful argument for a minimal "night-watchman" state and challenges the vi...

The Human Right to Health (Norton Global Ethics Series)

“A broad-ranging, insightful analysis of the complex practical and ethical issues involved in global health.”―Kirkus Reviews Few topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom...

Why Read Marx Today?

Why Read Marx Today?

Political Thought

An Introduction to Political Philosophy

What Is Justice?: Classic And Contemporary Readings 2nd Ed + an Introduction to Political Philosophy

Disadvantage

Robert Nozick: Property, Justice, and the Minimal State

Robert Nozick: Property, Justice, and the Minimal State