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The revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit’s highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology,
Unparalleled in the breadth and scope of its coverage, this newly-revised third edition traces the evolution of political philosophy as a
contemporary practice, and raises important questions about the impact of current political events.
• Fully updated to include 49 contemporary and classic selections from the most distinguished scholars in political philosophy
• Includes essays which represent a diversity of political and ideological positions, and features interdisciplinary voices in politics, law,
and economics
• The ideal collection of primary readings to accompany the Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Second Edition (Wiley
ROBERT E. GOODIN is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Social and Political Theory at Australian National University
and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. The Founding Editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy, he has published
many books, including A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Second Edition (Wiley Blackwell, 2012, with P. Pettit).
His book Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom (2008 with J.M. Rice, A. Parpo, and L. Eriksson) was awarded the
International Social Science Council's Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.
PHILIP PETTIT is L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of
Philosophy at the Australian National University. He is fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding
Fellow of the British Academy. Working in moral and political philosophy, and on background issues in the philosophy of mind, he
is the author of a number of books, including On the People's Terms, which won the David and Elaine Spitz prize for 2014, and
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