The Right to Private Property (Clarendon Paperbacks) - Couverture souple

Waldron, Jeremy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0198239378 ISBN 13 : 9780198239376

Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 1991

Synopsis

Presenting a comprehensive, critical examination of the claim that private property is one of the fundamental rights of humankind, Waldron here contrasts two types of arguments about rights: those based on historical entitlement, and those based on the importance of property for freedom. He illustrates this contrast with a detailed discussion of the theories of property found in Locke's Second Treatise and Hegel's Philosophy of Rights, and offers original analyses of the concept of ownership, the idea of rights, and the relation between property and equality, finding that traditional arguments about property yield some surprisingly radical conclusions.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

`A thoughtful and meticulous book ... consistently intelligent and often highly instructive.' Times Literary Supplement

`an exceptionally clear and useful account ... Waldron's book demonstrates where an effort to take "the right to private property" seriously ought to lead.' Times Higher Education Supplement

`scholarly book' Robert Oakeshott, Political Quarterly, 61.3 July-Sept 1990

`His extensive discussion of Locke will not disappoint ... immensely rich. Highly recommended for all university and college libraries' Religious Studies Review

`lucid and authoritative book ... A book like this is intended to be the beginning, not the end, of thinking about the subject it covers.' Constitutional Commentary

`thoughtful, tightly reasoned book ... a very clear and extraordinarily sophisticated analysis of property rights.' Michigan Law Review

`we should be grateful for the wealth of intelligent and insightful analyses in this big book' Dialogue

`The great merit of Waldron's study is that it brings a high-powered and unforgiving microscope to one argument: that there is a right to private property ... Because the study of the right to property can lead in so many directions, and because Waldron is aware of them, this is a major contribution to contemporary political theory.' Political Studies

Biographie de l'auteur

Jeremy Waldron is at University of California, Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198239378
• ISBN 13: 9780198239376
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 484
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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