I still think one of the best ones is the David Miller ed. Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Political Thought; after that the Blackwells Companion to Political Philosophy (Goodin, Pettit eds) and most recently, Oxford Handbook to Political Theory. But the Miller ed. is good for a student coming at these things for the first time - lots of entries and written by good people (although still pretty general). After that, the Stanford online encyl. Is excellent, but advanced. D.
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Dictionaries of Political Philosophy
Someone asked me for advice about dictionaries of political philosophy. Here's what Prof. Duncan Ivison (excellent political philosopher at our own university, current Head of SOPHI) has to say:
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justine, are there any major liberal theories of justice other than rawls'?
Yes, there are many liberal theories of justice, and quite a complex history to this tradition of thought. Take a look at the entry on liberalism in the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy for an overview:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liberalism/
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