Political Authority: Contract and Critique

by Peter Winch

Winch is best known as the founder of post-war analytic philosophy of the social sciences, and as one of the rare post-war British philosophers who engaged with continental thought, in particular Simone Weil (on whom he wrote a book), J rgen Habermas, and Karl-Otto Apel. Throughout his career, he also wrote on issues in political philosophy, with particular focus on questions to do with the legitimacy of the state and on the philosophies of Hobbes,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839991658
• ISBN13: 9781839991653
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Length: 250 Pages