December 17, 2003

New books in political philosophy

Posted by Chris

A few new books in political philosophy have crossed my desk today either in the form of physical copies or publishers’ announcements. First among them is a new collection called Social Justice edited by Matthew Clayton (Warwick) and Andrew Williams (Reading) which contains an excellent selection of readings for an undergraduate course (and I’ll be recommending it to my charges). Second, my former PhD student Colin Farrelly (Waterloo, Canada) has a textbook — An Introduction to Contemporary Political Theory — and an accompanying reader: Contemporary Political Theory: A Reader . Finally, my friend Axel Gosseries (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) has a new book out on intergenerational justice: Penser la justice entre les générations which addresses some of the topics we’ve been discussing on CT recently including pensions and demography.

Posted on December 17, 2003 03:26 PM UTC
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Farelly’s books look pretty good, I could almost use them for a contemporary political theory course. I say almost because of the short shrift given to critical theory of various stripes. Still, a reader that could take care of 70% of such a course is a rare beast.

Posted by DJW · December 17, 2003 04:28 PM

I know it’s the near-universal practice to link books to amazon, but is there any reason not to link to the publisher’s page instead? Is it just that amazon gives better service if one wants to order the book? I ask mostly becuase they tend to give meager information on the book most of the time, while in my experience the publishers tend to do better. Maybe others have a different experience, though. But, often enough amazon doesn’t even clearly list the publisher, making it harder to get to that page, while everyone knows how to get to amazon.

Posted by matt · December 17, 2003 06:24 PM

Many bloggers — myself included — get a little cut if people buy something off amazon after following a link. It isn’t much — I bought one book off my last quarter’s earnings — and sometimes we pay Henry in books for the bandwidth costs so it helps there too.

Posted by Chris Bertram · December 17, 2003 07:09 PM

Chris,

That sounds like a good enough explination to me. Thanks.

Posted by matt · December 17, 2003 09:41 PM
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