Liberty and Justice: Essays in Political Theory 2

by Brian M. Barry

Book Overview

Brian Barry enjoys a reputation as a leading political thinker, interested both in theories about how social institutions ought to work and theories about how they do work. He is particularly concerned with the connections between the two kinds of theory. There is widely perceived to be a crisis in liberal political philosophy, and a number of the pieces collected here ask what intellectual resources are available to defend a system of liberal rights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198272995
• ISBN13: 9780198272991
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"