Powers, Possessions and Freedom: Essays in Honor of C.B.Macpherson - Couverture rigide

Kontos, Alkis

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0802054749 ISBN 13 : 9780802054746

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 1979

Synopsis

Crawford Brough Macpherson has been teaching at the University of Toronto for some forty years, building an international reputation through his identification and critique of possessive individualism as a core concept in Western liberal democratic theory. The essays brought together here are from eminetn scholars all over the English-speaking world are independent statements on the issues that preoccupy Macpherson - powes, possessions, and freedom, the central problems in political theory. They are arranged in a historical sequence, touching on the thought of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Macpherson himself, and facing with vigour and originality the dilemmas of liberal-democratic and Marxian theory of social and political life. It concludes with an explication by the editor of the inner parable of Durrenmatt's play, The Visit, as a profound critique of capitalism, and with a bibliography of Macpherson's published work.

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À propos de l'auteur

Alkis Kontos is a member of the Department of Political Economy at the University of Toronto.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 1979
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802054749
• ISBN 13: 9780802054746
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible