Robert Nozick

Jonathan Wolff offers the first book-length treatment of Robert Nozick's philosophy and of the arguments that have grown out of it. Rather than treating Nozick in isolation, Wolff places his ideas within the debates of the present day and traces the intellectual traditions that shaped his thinking.

The core of the book is a careful, critical rebuilding of the main arguments in Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Wolff concentrates on Nozick's account of individual rights, his argument that a minimal state can be justified, and his Entitlement Theory of Justice.