Proudhon: What is Property? (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph/ Kelley, Donald R. (EDT)/ Smith, Bonnie G. (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（1994/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 270 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521405560
• DDC分類 330.17

基本説明

Ed. by Donald R. Kelley, Bonnie G. Smith. This is new translation of one of the classics of the traditions of ansrchism and socialism.

Full Description

This is a 1994 translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential and subversive critics of modern French and European society. His What is Property? (1840) produced the answer 'Property is theft'; the book itself has become a classic of political thought through its wide-ranging and deep-reaching critique of private property as at once the essential institution of Western culture and the root cause of greed, corruption, political tyranny, social division and violation of natural law. A critical and historical introduction situates Proudhon's 'diabolical work' (as he called it) in the context of nineteenth-century social and legal controversy and of the history of political thought in general.

Contents

1. Method followed in this work; 2. Property considered as a natural right; 3. Labor as the efficient cause of the domain of property; 4. That property is impossible: demonstration; 5. Psychological exposition of the idea of the just and the unjust and the determination of the principle of government and right.