Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974) was designed as a rebuttal to Rawls but it was so much more than that. It offered a defence of the minimal state that appealed to the writers of The Sopranos and a vision of utopia that appealed to the founders of Silicon Valley. David explores what Nozick wanted to achieve and identifies the surprising radicalism behind his political minimalism.
Going Deeper:
Robert Nozick, The Examined Life (1989)
Jonathan Wolff, Robert Nozick: Property, Justice and the Minimal State (1991)
Stephen Metcalf, ‘The Liberty Scam’, Slate (2011)
[Video] Shelly Kagan, 'Hedonism and Nozick's Experience Machine' (from Open Yale Courses)
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