[cross-posted at Liberty & Power]
A nice birthday present came in the mail today: my anthology with Tibor, Anarchism/Minarchism: Is a Government Part of a Free Country?, hot off the presses. It looks very nice. (Well, at 40¢ a page, it’d better!)
The book features contributions from a variety of philosophical perspectives within libertarianism, including consequentialist, deontological, contractarian, Randian, and Hayekian approaches.
The contents:
PART 1: MINARCHISM
1. Why the State Needs a Justification – Lester H. Hunt
2. Libertarianism, Limited Government and Anarchy – John Roger Lee
3. Rationality, History, and Inductive Politics – Adam Reed
4. Objectivism against Anarchy – William R Thomas
5. Reconciling Anarchism and Minarchism – Tibor R. Machan
PART 2: ANARCHISM
6. Radical Freedom and Social Living – Aeon James Skoble
7. The State: From Minarchy to Anarchy – Jan Narveson
8. The Obviousness of Anarchy – John Hasnas
9. Market Anarchism as Constitutionalism – Roderick T. Long
10. Liberty, Equality, Solidarity: Toward a Dialectical Anarchism – Charles Johnson
It strikes me that four of the ten contributors have some connection to the Auburn Philosophy Department. Tibor and I are Professor Emeritus and Associate Professor, respectively; Aeon was an Instructor here in 1993-1994; and Charles was an undergrad philosophy major here, graduating in 2003.
by chance, Is the introduction/preface to this available online anywhere?…….
Ouch, that’s pricey.
Maybe next time I have some Amazon gift-certificate credit to burn…
Do you expect that they will release a cheaper paperback edition later on for us poor folks?
I wish I wasn’t a poor college student. 🙁
I’m all in favor of free enterprise, but I’ve never understood the disparity in book prices.
More like 36¢ a page… but I’m not counting shipping. Anyway, things I found on the internet:
PART 1: MINARCHISM
1. Why the State Needs a Justification – Lester H. Hunt
PART 2: ANARCHISM
8. The Obviousness of Anarchy – John Hasnas
9. Market Anarchism as Constitutionalism – Roderick T. Long
I wasn’t too sure about this one. I’ve read the “Constitutionalism as Anarchism” pieces over at strike the root, but I’m not sure how The Professor has edited them for publication.
Links:
http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/long/long11.html
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/long/long1.html
I was completely unsure of whether or not Machan’s essay on anarchism and minarchism’s rapprochement was the same as this essay on reconciliation. Either way, it’s not online.
thanks black bloke!
No problem RBM 🙂
The Objectivists seem to be very keen on keeping things offline, so I didn’t really expect to find much of their stuff.
Finding almost all of the contents of that big Ed Stringhham book was much easier.
If only I wasn’t such a cheap person and a poor student.
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Bill,
You might want to read “The Myth of the Rule of Law” by John Hasnas. A very interesting and thought provoking article, in my opinion. You can read it online from Hasnas’ website.