Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Sources ix
5. Kai Nielsen’s Political Philosophy: A Critical Introduction and Overview xi
6. Metaphilosophy: Critical Theory and Wide-Reflective Equilibrium
7. On Finding One’s Feet in Philosophy: From Wittgenstein to Marx 1
8. Metaphilosophy, Pragmatism, and a Kind of Critical Theory: Nielsen and Rorty 15
9. On There Being Wide Reflective Equilibria: Why It Is Important to Put It in the Plural 41
10. The Global Crisis of Values: The Poverty of Moral Philosophy 75
11. Egalitarianism and Socialism
12. On the Choice between Reform and Revolution 125
13. Justice and Modes of Production: Allen Wood’s “The Marxian Critique of Justice” Revisited 151
14. Class and Justice 167
15. Radical Egalitarian Justice: Justice as Equality 193
16. Radical Egalitarianism Revisited: On Going beyond the Difference Principle 213
17. Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Global Justice
18. Is Global Justice Impossible? 265
19. Liberal Nationalism, Liberal Democracies, and Secession 301
20. Cosmopolitan Nationalism 349
21. World Government: A Cosmopolitan Imperative? 373
22. An Interview with Kai Nielsen on Political Philosophy 401
23. Selected Writings by Kai Nielsen 437
24. Bibliography 445
25. Index 469