Pluralism, Property, and Radical Transformation
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2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-6839-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-6839-2 (ISBN)
Drawing on intellectual history, ethics, political economy and jurisprudence, Pluralism, Property, and Radical Transformation offers a novel pluralistic property theory. Acknowledging the tragic conflicts between goods, it reveals the limits of theory and defends the radical freedom of communities to transform their property systems.
Property theory—the justification for who has access to which resources, for what ends, and when—lies at the heart of political, social and legal thought. Yet from Locke to Bentham, Hayek, Hegel, Marx, and up to the present, thinkers on this subject have taken for granted that there is one right answer to the question: What is Man?
Pluralism, Property, and Radical Transformation offers a novel property theory that rejects this assumption. Drawing on intellectual history, ethics, and political economy, Matthew Kruger argues that we must seriously consider the fact that life is constituted by tragic conflicts between goods. Instead of designing a prescriptive model based on a single anthropology, theory must limit its work to descriptions of what can be done. It must identify goods that give life meaning, the object-relations that form them, and the rights needed to facilitate them—and leave the decision on ‘What is to be done’ in light of their inevitable conflicts to politics and law.
Demonstrating the practical relevance of this theory, the book concludes with an analysis of how South Africa’s Constitution embraces it, along with its democratic implications and radical and transformative potential.
Property theory—the justification for who has access to which resources, for what ends, and when—lies at the heart of political, social and legal thought. Yet from Locke to Bentham, Hayek, Hegel, Marx, and up to the present, thinkers on this subject have taken for granted that there is one right answer to the question: What is Man?
Pluralism, Property, and Radical Transformation offers a novel property theory that rejects this assumption. Drawing on intellectual history, ethics, and political economy, Matthew Kruger argues that we must seriously consider the fact that life is constituted by tragic conflicts between goods. Instead of designing a prescriptive model based on a single anthropology, theory must limit its work to descriptions of what can be done. It must identify goods that give life meaning, the object-relations that form them, and the rights needed to facilitate them—and leave the decision on ‘What is to be done’ in light of their inevitable conflicts to politics and law.
Demonstrating the practical relevance of this theory, the book concludes with an analysis of how South Africa’s Constitution embraces it, along with its democratic implications and radical and transformative potential.
Matthew Kruger, PhD, is advocate at the Johannesburg Bar in South Africa.
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1: Pluralism and Property
Part I: The Anthropological Question
Chapter 2: For the Public Good
Chapter 3: Ghosts and Gulags
Chapter 4: The Riddle of History
Part II: Three Questions, Not One
Chapter 5: Deflating the Structure
Chapter 6: World as Instrument
Chapter 7: Spirit and its Modes
Chapter 8: The Tragedy of Goodness
Part III: The Chosen Way
Chapter 9: A Constitution of Possibilities
Chapter 10: Radical Transformation
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.05.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-6839-0 / 1666968390 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-6839-2 / 9781666968392 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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