| Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com A comprehensive guide to current thinking in political philosophy, this volume focuses especially on normative issues. The first part of the book consists of a series of extended essays on the contribution that a number of different disciplines - economics, history, legal studies, political science, sociology, and philosophy itself - have made and are making to current debates. Analyses of political ideologies form a separate section, followed by discussions of major concepts ranging from virtue and equality to sociobiology and environmentalism. Written by an international assembly of today's most distinguished figures in political philosophy, this volume provides an ideal text for course use. Average Customer Rating: A Companion to Contemporary political thinking | Customer Rating: | | One of the best books I ever read, helped me a lot with my debates on philsosphical topics, I strongly reccommend this book to all young debaters | | |