Powers, Possessions and Freedom : : Essays in Honour of C.B. Macpherson / / ed. by Alkis Kontos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Avineri, Shlomo,; Hill, Christopher,; Hobsbawm, E. J.,; Kontos, Alkis,; Leiss, William,; Lukes, Steven,; Mansfield Jr, Harvey C.,; Pateman, Carole,; Shklar, Judith,; Svacek, Victor,; Taylor, Charles,
• HerausgeberIn: Kontos, Alkis,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Covenant Theology and the Concept of 'A Public Person' -- On the Political Character of Property in Locke -- Atomism -- Justifying Political Obligation -- Reading the Social Contract -- Pre-political Movements in Modern Politics -- The New Jerusalem of Moses Hess -- Marx and Macpherson: Needs, Utilities, and Self-development -- The Real and Ideal Worlds of Democracy -- The Dialectics of Domination: An Interpretation of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit -- Crawford Brough Macpherson: A Bibliography