The Social Contract from Hobbes to Rawls (Paperback)

List of contributors, Preface, 1. The social contract and its critics: an overview, 2. Hobbes’s contractarianism: a comparative analysis, 3. John Locke: social contract versus political anthropology, 4. Locke’s contract in context, 5. History, reason and experience: Hume’s arguments against contract theories, 6. Rousseau, social contract and the modern Leviathan, 7. Kant on the social contract, 8. Hegel’s critique of the theory of social contract, 9. Marx against the social contract, 10. Contractarianism and international political theory, 11. Women, gender and contract: feminist interpretations, 12. Gauthier’s contractarian morality, 13. Justifying ‘justice’: rianism, communitarianism and the foundations of contemporary liberalism, 14. Economic justice: contractarianism and Rawls’s difference principle, Index