#marketplace, .navbar, .container, .container-fluid, #media, #category, #ewards, #careers, .blueHeroSearchContainer, #photoHeroBanner, #etextbooks-page-2015, .slider-arrow, #books-page-2015, #my-account-wrapper-2015 {display:none;} .noscriptmsg p, .noscriptmsg h1 {color: #000;} body {background-color: #ccc !important; font-size: 14px; }

We're sorry, but eCampus.com doesn't work properly without JavaScript.

Either your device does not support JavaScript or you do not have JavaScript enabled.

How to enable JavaScript in your browser.

Need help? Call 1-855-252-4222

Rent now promotional banner

Rent More, Save More! Use code: ECRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Community, Anarchy and Liberty book cover, ISBN 9780521246217

Community, Anarchy and Liberty

by Michael Taylor

ISBN13: 9780521246217
ISBN10: 0521246210
eBook ISBN(s): 9780511867774
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 1982-10-29
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Your order must be $59 or more to qualify for free economy shipping. Bulk sales, PO's, Marketplace items, eBooks and apparel do not qualify for this offer.
1. Community, Anarchy and Liberty > ISBN13: 9780521246217

List Price: ~~$94.00~~ Save up to $66.16

Rent Book $66.98

Free Shipping

Rent Textbook Options

TERM

PRICE

DUE

Short Term

$63.45

Jan 4

Semester

$70.50

Jan 4

Quarter

$66.98

Dec 18

SPECIAL ORDER: 1-2 WEEKS

*This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.

Buy New
$93.91

Add to Cart Free Shipping

SPECIAL ORDER: 1-2 WEEKS

Digital
$27.84*

Rent Digital Options

DURATION

PRICE

Online: 180 Days

Downloadable: 180 Days - VitalSource

$27.84*

Online: 1825 Days

Downloadable: Lifetime access - VitalSource

$34.80*

*To support the delivery of the digital material to you, a digital delivery fee of $3.99 will be charged on each digital item.

How To: Textbook Rental

Looking to rent a book? Rent Community, Anarchy and Liberty [ISBN: 9780521246217] for the semester, quarter, and short term or search our site for other textbooks by Michael Taylor. Renting a textbook can save you up to 90% from the cost of buying.

Summary

Can social order be maintained in a stateless society? Is anarchy viable? The contention of this book is that stateless social order is possible only if relations between people are those characteristic of community. Rejecting the libertarian argument that the goods and services which make up 'social order' can be provided by private firms competing in the marketplace, and the liberal argument that because social order is a public good its maintenance requires the state, Michael Taylor goes on to examine the methods actually used to maintain order in anarchic and quasi-anarchic societies and shows how these methods can be effective only in a small and stable community. Community in turn requires a rough economic equality. But according to a traditional argument (recently revitalised by Robert Nozick), no equality would survive for long without state interference - so that communitarian anarchy must break down. Here this argument is shown to be fallacious: the development of gross inequality can be prevented in an anarchic community. At the same time, the small community is not portrayed as continuously harmonious, free from constraint and coercion - the contention is rather that community is necessary if we are to live without the state or substantially reduce its role. But community is defended against the charge of being incompatible with individual liberty. That claim is shown to be no more accurate than the opposite and equally simple assumption, that liberty is possible only in community. For evidence and illustration, the book draws on the experience of stateless primitive societies, peasant communities and utopian and other 'intentional' communities. It sets a new standard of clarity and rigour for theoretical studies in anarchism and will interest a wide range of readers, including political theorists, political anthropologists and sociologists, and anyone concerned with the justification of the state.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. Anarchy and community
2. Social order without the state
3. Equality in anarchy
4. Community and liberty
5. Epilogue: the future of community and anarchy
Bibliography
Index.

Supplemental Materials

What is included with this book?

The New copy of this book will include any supplemental materials advertised. Please check the title of the book to determine if it should include any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

The Used, Rental and eBook copies of this book are not guaranteed to include any supplemental materials. Typically, only the book itself is included. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc.

Rewards Program

%>