Some books remain in my queue longer than others.
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick has been there
since shortly after it was published in the mid 1970's.
Nozick, a libertarian and Harvard professor of philosophy,
died this past year at age 63. His death, and the retrospectives
that followed, convinced me to finally bite the bullet and read
his most famous book.
He wrote the book in response to John Rawls'
A Theory of Justice which had been published two years
earlier. Though Nozick praises that book as being the most
important work of political philisophy since Mill, Nozick's own
book is devoted to tearing down Rawls' theory of justice.
In my view, he largely succeeded.
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