Recently published in our Continuum Studies in Political Philosophy series is Nozick's Libertarian Project by Mark D. Friedman, in which the author updates and defends the natural-rights based libertarianism articulated in Robert Nozick’s landmark work, Anarchy, State and Utopia.
Consolidating more than three decades of scholarly and popular writing to have emerged in the wake of Nozick’s text, Friedman offers a 21st-century defense of the minimal libertarian state. In the course of this analysis, and drawing on further insights offered by the work of F.A. Hayek, Nozick’s Libertarian Project shows that natural rights libertarianism can offer convincing answers to the fundamental questions that lie at the heart of political theory. The book also rebuts many of the most common criticisms to have been levelled at this worldview, including those from left libertarians and from egalitarians such as as G.A. Cohen.
The author has recently launched his own website devoted to advancing the rights-based political philosophy first articulated by John Locke and championed prominently in our day by Nozick, and would no doubt welcome visitors!
Sarah
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