Philip Pettit, "The State" (Princeton UP, 2023)
An interview with Philip Pettit
Princeton UP Ideas Podcast · New Books Network
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Show Notes
In The State (Princeton University Press, 2023), the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit embarks on a massive undertaking, offering a major new account of the foundations of the state and the nature of justice. In doing so, Pettit builds a new theory of what the state is and what it ought to be, addresses the normative question of how justice serves as a measure of the success of a state, and the way it should operate in relation to its citizens and other people.
Philip Pettit is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network.