Thibault Serlet
  • Home
  • Book Reviews
  • Contact

Articles

​

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

11/2/2017

0 Comments

 
Picture
​Anarchy, State, and Utopia
By Robert Nozick
Published in 1974
400 Pages
Thibault’s Score: 2/5


A book so bad it gave me autism.


I had to put it down after the first few chapters even though I already agree with the author.


The writing style is terrible. Its long, convoluted sentences are hard to read.


The style of argumentation appeals to the autism of the reader rather than their reason. All of the arguments rely on shaky definitions that have little bearing to the way that the words are used in daily parlance. Anarchy, State, and Utopia is devoid of empirical or historical examples, and makes numerous absurd proclamations without evidence. He assumes everyone believes in the existence of rights, and writes in a condescending tone.


If you want to read a good libertarian book, go for Hayek, either one of the Friedmans, Rothbard, Mises, Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, but for heavens sake, skip this manifesto.


There is an audience for the book, and they look like this:
Picture
Picture
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Thibault Serlet

    Most of my articles are book reviews, but I also write about many other topics.

    Archives

    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Book Reviews
  • Contact