Winner of the 1975 National Book Award, this classic work is updated for the first time in 30 years Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a foundational text in classical liberal thought, in which Robert Nozick created the intellectual underpinnings for what is now known as libertarianism. In his exhortation to limit the state to only the most minimal possible role, Nozick stirred tremendous controversy in an era predisposed to look to government as the solution to social injustice. When originally published in 1974, Anarchy, State, and Utopia was dismissed by many scholars as nothing more than a paean to the bourgeois status quo. But American politics have changed dramatically since then. Anarchy, State, and Utopia has become ever more relevant since the country has caught up with Nozick's ideas--as Clinton proclaimed, "the era of big government is over." With fierce argumentation and meticulous logic, Robert Nozick gave birth to a new way of thinking about the relationship between the citizen and the state.

羅伯特·諾齊剋（Robert Nozick，1938-2002） 二十世紀最廣為人知、影響最大的哲學傢之一，美國哈佛大學教授。因1974年齣版第一本著作《無政府，國傢和烏托邦》（Anarchy, state, and utopia）一舉成名。該書獲得美國國傢圖書奬，並被評為二戰後最有影響力的一百本書之一。

另著有《哲學解釋》（Philosophical Explanations，1981）、《被省察的人生：哲學沉思》（The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations，1989）、《個人選擇的規範理論》（The Normative Theory of Individual Choice，1990）、《理性的本質》（The Nature of Rationality，1993）、《蘇格拉底的睏惑》（Socratic Puzzles，1997）、《恒常：客觀世界的基本結構》（Invariances: the Structure of Objective World，2001）等，涉及哲學、政治學、倫理學等多個領域。