The essays in this volume take off from themes in the work of eminent philosopher and political scientist Joshua Cohen. They center around three central ideas: democracy, confronting injustice, and formulating political principles and values in an interdependent world.

• Introduction Debra Satz


• Part I. Reinvigorating Democracy


• 1. Saving Democracy from Ourselves: Democracy as a Tragedy of the Commons, Archon Fung


• 2. Collective Reason or Individual Liberty: Deliberative Democracy and the Protection of Individual Rights, Assaf Sharon


• 3. Rousseau and the Meaning of Popular Sovereignty, Stuart White


• Part II. Confronting Injustice


• 4. Without the Loving Strains of Commitment, Christopher Lebron


• 5. Deliberation and University Governance: The Case of Brown University's Diversity and Inclusion Plan


• Richard Locke


• 6. Accountability in an Era of Celebrity, Martha Nussbaum


• Part III. Principles for an Interdependent World


• 7. Exploitation in International Trade, Helena De Bres


• 8. Sovereignty and Complex Interdependence: Some Surprising Implications of their Compatibility


• Charles Sabel


• 9. Toward a Political Philosophy of Human Rights, Annabelle Lever


• Afterword Joshua Cohen


• Publications of Joshua Cohen


• Index

Debra Satz is Vernon R. & Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities & Sciences at Stanford; she is a political philosopher whose work is at the intersection of philosophy and economics, and she is editor-in-chief of Philosophy and Public Affairs.
Annabelle Lever is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris.