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Just Property - Volume Two: Enlightenment, Revolution, and History (Hardcover)
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Just Property - Volume Two: Enlightenment, Revolution, and History (Hardcover)
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Property remains the bedrock of the societies we all inhabit. It
underpins our core institutions - including families, states and
economies - and it is the medium through which the intensifying
politics of inequality is played out. There is plenty of evidence
that its importance is increasing in a world of growing wealth
inequality and depletion of natural resources. Volume Two of Just
Property traces the development of ideas about property in the
Western world from the early eighteenth century, through the
Enlightenment and the experience of the French Revolution, to the
critical stance of socialists and anarchists in the nineteenth
century. It ranges across the thought of Bernard Mandeville, David
Hume, Adam Smith, Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, the Abbe de
Sieyes, Burke, Wollstonecraft, Charles Fourier, Karl Marx, Proudhon
and Peter Kropotkin. Many themes persist from an earlier period, as
does the influence of Christianity and the Roman Law but there are
also many innovations. In general, the authority of God and the
natural law recedes and the themes of utility and securing general
welfare became more prominent. In the wake of Locke, labour, though
sometimes in the form of 'past labour', that is capital, attains a
new prominence. For its admirers, a newly-unfettered private
property is the means of securing personal freedom, constraining
authoritarian governments, promoting the arts and sciences, and
delivering an unprecedented improvement in the material condition
of the whole population. For its critics, private property is the
central component in a new political economy of systemic and
unlimited class exploitation. It penetrates everywhere and corrupts
everything that it touches. With these arguments, we are clearly on
the terrain of modernity, witnessing a set of arguments and
counter-arguments with which we all still struggle.
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