About G. A. Cohen
Canadian-born political philosopher (1941–2009), Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford and a founder of 'Analytical Marxism,' which applied the tools of analytic philosophy to Marxist and egalitarian ideas. Raised in a communist Jewish family in Montreal, Cohen became one of the most rigorous and witty defenders of equality in the English-speaking world.
Books by G. A. Cohen
Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality
The most rigorous egalitarian answer to libertarianism. Cohen takes Robert Nozick's principle of 'self-ownership' — that each person fully owns themselves and their talents — with complete seriousness, and shows, throug…
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The most elegant short argument for socialism's moral appeal. Cohen asks you to imagine a camping trip, where everyone naturally shares equipment and effort without markets or hierarchy, and argues that the equality and…
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