Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Powers, Possessions and Freedom: Essays in Honour of C.B. MacPherson

Powers, Possessions and Freedom: Essays in Honour of C.B. MacPherson

Kontos, Alkis

Paperback

Series: Heritage

PhilosophyEconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1487592426
ISBN13: 9781487592424
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jan 1 1979
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 from eminent scholars all over the English-speaking world are independent statements on the issues that preoccupy Macpherson - powers, 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.

Also in

Philosophy

View All