Thursday, July 5, 2007

Reading list for LD

A student in another lab asked me to put together a reading list. I thought I would share it with you too.

Introductory Classics:
Aristotle "Politics" (democratic theory, communitarianism, etc.)
Locke "Second Treatise on Civil Government" (social contract)
Rousseau "The Social Contract" (communitarian version of the social contract)
John Stuart Mill "Utilitarianism" and "On Liberty" (libertarianism and utilitarianism)
Kant "Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Ethics" (deontology)
Straus and Cropsey "History of Political Philosophy" (an introduction to a long list of classical authors – be selective though, some are not particularly relevant to LD)

Contemporary Classics:
Rawls "Justice as Fairness" (egalitarian)
Nozick "Anarchy, State, and Utopia" (libertarian)
Gewirth "Reason and Morality" and "The Community of Rights" (Neo-Kantian)
Gauthier "Morality by Agreement" (Neo-social contract)
Etzioni 'The New Golden Rule" (communitarian)
Peter Singer "Practical Ethics" (utilitarianism)
Sandel "Liberalism and the Limits of Justice" (communitarianism)

Introductions to some recently popular positions:
Allan "Contemporary Social and Sociological Theory" (lots of coverage of continental and radical thinkers from Wallerstein to Foucault to Baudrillard to West)
Delgado and Stefancic "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction"
Young "Justice and the Politics of Difference"

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