Political philosophy

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE NATURE OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY -- 1 THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY -- The Divine Authority Theory -- Natural Subordination -- Authority from the Good -- Consent-Based Theories of Authority -- Further Rending -- Notes -- 2 MODERN SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORIES -- Ancient and Medieval Contractarian Ideas -- Hobbes -- Problems with Hobbes's Alienation Social Contract Argument -- Locke -- Problems with Locke's Agency Social Contract Argument -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 3 CONSENT AND DEMOCRACY -- Why Do We Need a State? -- Political Authority -- The Governing Convention -- Agency and Mastery -- Consent -- Political Authority -- Solving the Paradox of Being Governed -- Modern Democracies -- Summary and Further Questions -- Further Reading -- Notes -- PART TWO THE EXTENT OF JUST POLITICAL AUTHORITY -- 4 DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE -- Utilitarianism -- Rawls's Theory of justice -- Libertarianism -- Egalitarianism -- Are We Too Late? -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 5 LIBERALISM, COMMUNITARIANISM, AND POSTLIBERAL THEORY -- Liberalism -- Communitarianism -- The Liberals Strike Back -- The Attempt to Construct a New "Postliberal" Political Theory -- Further Reading -- Notes -- 6 CITIZENSHIP, NATIONALISM, AND CULTURE -- Two Conceptions of Belonging -- Immigration, Nationalism, and Social Identity -- Liberalism and Community -- Multiculturalism -- Secession in Consent-Based States -- Further Reading -- Notes -- EPILOGUE -- Bibliography -- About the Book and Author -- Index