Libertarianism ithout Inequality [Paperback]

Michael Otsuka's ingenious and exciting book vindicates left-libertarianism, a political philosophy which combines stringent rights of control over one's own mind, body, and life with egalitarian rights of ownership of the world. He reclaims the ideas of John Locke from the libertarian right, and defends a view which is both more libertarian and more egalitarian than the Kantian liberalism of John Rawls. Otsuka endorses a fully egalitarian principle of equal opportunity for welfare and defends a pluralistic, decentralized ideal of political society.Libertarianism without Inequalityis a book which everyone interested in political theory should read.

Introduction
I. Self-Ownership and World-Ownership
1. Self-Ownership and Equality
2. Making the Unjust Provide for the Disabled
II. Punishment and Self-Defence
3. The Right to Punish
4. Killing the Innocent in Self-Defence
III. Political Society
5. Political Society as a Voluntary Association
6. Left-Libertarianism Versus Liberal Egalitarianism
7. The Problem of Intergenerational Sovereignty
Bibliography
Index