Value, Conflict, and Order: Berlin, Hampshire, Williams, and the Realist Revival in Political Theory

"A lucid and wide-ranging account of three leading philosophers who provided the impetus for the realist movement in contemporary political philosophy." —William A. Galston, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution

Is the purpose of political philosophy to articulate the moral values that political regimes would realize in a virtually perfect world and show what that implies for the way we should behave toward one another? That model of political philosophy, driven by an effort to draw a picture...