The Lockean Theory of Rights. (book reviews)

John Simmons's new book is a distinguished example of a style of writing that has established itself within political theory over the past few years. The oeuvre of a canonical thinker or thinkers is presented - often with considerable textual scholarship - as a vehicle for contemporary theorizing.

Sometimes the canonical texts are treated primarily as a cue for further reflection, sometimes as a body of ideas that benefits from underpinning in a contemporary idiom (Hampton on Hobbes again), sometimes as a vehicle for understanding a wider movement (Grant on Lockean liberalism), and ...

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