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Print Price: $21.95

Format:
Paperback
176 pp.
5.25" x 8"

ISBN-13:
9780199008377

Publication date:
April 2013

Imprint: OUP Canada

The Rise and Fall of Economic Justice and Other Essays

Reissue

The late C. B. Macpherson
Introduction by Frank Cunningham

Series : The Wynford Project

In his final book, one of the giants of twentieth-century political philosophy returns to his key themes of state, class, and property as well as such contemporary questions as economic justice, human rights, and the nature of industrial democracy. Macpherson not only re-examines historical issues dealt with in his earlier works, such as the impact of Hobbes's economic assumptions on his political theories, but assesses the problematic future of democracy in a market society. This new edition includes an introduction by Frank Cunningham that places the book in the broader context of Macpherson's work.

Readership : Courses in political and social philosophy at the fourth-year and graduate level, as well as general readers with an interest in political philosophy.

Reviews

"Those who have hitherto been unconvinced by Macpherson's analysis of liberal democracy should be moved to reflect again on the work of this liberal theorist who so much wants to save the best of liberalism from the worst of liberalism."

--Thomas J. Lewis, Canadian Journal of Political Science
"Macpherson does democratic theory as excitingly as it has been done for several decades. Both those who have followed the previous trajectory of his work and those to whom it is unfamiliar can only benefit from a reading of these essays."

--Philip Green, American Political Science Review

Frank Cunningham: Introduction to the Wynford Edition
Biographical Note
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The Rise and Fall of Economic Justice
2. Problems of Human Rights in the Late Twentieth Century
3. The Prospects of Economic and Industrial Democracy
4. Liberalism as Trade-offs
5. Do We Need a Theory of the State?
6. Human Rights as Property Rights
7. Property as Means or End
8. Pluralism, Individualism, and Participation
9. Pluralism, Individualism, and Participation
10. Democracy, Utopian and Scientific
11. Hobbes's Political Economy
12. Hampsher-Monk's Levellers
Index

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C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987) was professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Widely regarded as Canada's pre-eminent political theorist of the twentieth century, he was the author of numerous books, including The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke, and The Real World of Democracy, and was named to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour.

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Special Features

Capstone collection. Includes twelve important essays by Canadian political philosopher C.B. Macpherson.
Enduring themes. Key topics include the role of the state, class, and property in contemporary democratic societies.
New introduction. Frank Cunningham of the University of Toronto puts the book in the context of Macpherson's body of work.
Biographical note. Cunningham's new introduction concludes with a biographical note on C.B. Macpherson and a bibliography of his published works.