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"In this book, leading expert Eric Mack provides a rigorous and clear account of the philosophical principles of libertarianism. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in political philosophy, political ideologies and the nature of liberty and state authority, from students and scholars to general readers"--

"Libertarianism" published on by Oxford University Press.

This engagingly written introduction examines modern libertarianism and its answers to today's most pressing issues-the economy, war, health care, and more.

This article aims to persuade its reader that libertarianism, at least in several of its varieties, is a species of the genus that Michael Oakeshott referred to as 'rationalism in politics'. I hope to demonstrate, employing the work of Oakeshott as well as Aristotle and Onora O'Neill, how many libertarian theorists, who generally have a sincere and admirable commitment to personal liberty, have been led astray by the rationalist promise that we might be able to approach deductive certainty concerning the 'correctness' of some political programme. The article will argue that a concept such as Pettit's freedom as non-domination is more robust and inclusive of all that we value about freedom than is the libertarian concept of freedom as non-interference. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Ltd., copyright holder.]