Crispin Sartwell is Associate Professor of Political Science at Dickinson College and the author of several books, including Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality and Extreme Virtue: Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives, both also published by SUNY Press.

acknowledgments

part I. preliminaries

introduction

1. some definitions

part II. the legitimacy of the state

2. social contract

3. utilitarian justifications of state power

4. justicial justifications of state power

part III. toward something else

5. silhouette of an anarchism

notes
index