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Nov 26, 2010 nozick disappointed many readers by declining to defend his book against the many criticisms it received. Other articles where anarchy, state, and utopia is discussed. A thinker with wideranging interests, robert nozick was one of the most important and influential political philosophers, along with john rawls, in the angloamerican analytic tradition. Robert nozicks political philosophy stanford encyclopedia. It won the 1975 us national book award in category philosophy and religion, has been translated into 11 languages, and was named one of the 100 most influential books since the war 19451995 by the uk times literary supplement.
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