G. A. Cohen: Liberty, Justice and Equality

G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and he was celebrated internationally not only for his penetrating ideas about liberty, justice and equality, but also for his method, a highly original and influential combination of analytical philosophy and Marxism.

Christine Sypnowich guides readers through the rich body of Cohen’s work. By identifying five paradoxes in hi...