biography
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| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in New York City, New York, USA. After earning a 1963 doctorate from Princeton, where he taught (1962–5), he held posts at Harvard (1965–7) and Rockefeller University (1967–9) before becoming a professor at Harvard in 1969. His seminal study, Anarchy, State and Utopia (1974), which won a National Book Award, stressed the primacy of individual rights, and he was generally associated with a conservative critique of trends in contemporary thought and society. |
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