12/21/2023 0 Comments State utopia anarchy![]() ![]() Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Dust jacket extremely good, with slight soiling and light wear and toning to extremities. Neat underlining to three passages on pages 241-43.īook near-fine, with foxing to edges of text block and mild toning to extremities. Along with John Rawls' Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the 20th century" ( Cambridge Companion). Early hailed as "complex, sophisticated, ingenious" ( Economist), Anarchy, State, and Utopia remains "a classic of modern political philosophy. Those individual rights-that freedom-is paramount and the state must always be kept minimal to ensure that individual rights are not threatened. Otherwise, people should essentially be free to live as they wish. Nozick argues that the only legitimate rule of the state is to protect people from aggression through the military, police and courts. It is certainly, and by far, one of the most influential philosophical books of the 20th century" (Hunt, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, 1). It "won the National Book Award in 1975 and in 2008 was listed by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books since WWII. "Nozick's book is a major event in contemporary political philosophy" ( New York Review of Books). National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion. ![]() $1200.įirst edition of Nozick's powerful and widely influential philosophical argument for broad individual rights, his "complex, sophisticated, ingenious" libertarian reply to John Rawls' Theory of Justice (1971), and winner of the 1975 U.S. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. "ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF THE 20TH CENTURY": FIRST EDITION OF NOZICK'S ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA ![]()
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