The foundational text of libertarian thought, named among the 100 Most Influential Books since World War II (Times Literary Supplement)

First published in response to John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia has turned into a defining text of traditional libertarian thought. Complicated and ultimately rejecting liberal, socialist, and conservative agendas, Nozick boldly asserts the fact that rights of individuals are violated like a state’s responsibilities increase — and that the only way in order to avoid these violations is the creation of a minimalist state limited to the enforcement of agreements and to security against force, fraud, and theft.

Winner from the National Book Award and translated into more than one hundred dialects, Anarchy, State and Utopia remains to be probably one of the most theoretically trenchant and philosophically high defenses of economic liberalism to time. With an launch by philosopher Thomas Nagel, this model brings Nozick and his work to today’s era of readers.