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Locke Among the Radicals: Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century

Autor Daniel Layman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 sep 2020
Capitalism in the western world is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy in the face of growing inequality. But many forget that the global, capitalist world as we know it today emerged largely during the industrial revolution. Four remarkable thinkers of the long nineteenth century, the Lockean radicals--Thomas Hodgskin, Lysander Spooner, John Bray, and Henry George--responded to the horrid and rampant economic injustices at the time by picking up the loose ends of Locke's property theory and weaving them into two competing strands. Each strand addressed problems of liberty and equality then emerging from industrial capitalism, but each did so in a different way. As Daniel Layman argues, in one camp, Hodgskin and Spooner, libertarian radicals, argued that the world of resources is common to all people only in the negative sense of being originally "unowned" by anyone. According to them, there are no just grounds for state redistribution except to correct past injustices, and governments are typically little more than thieving and oppressive gangs. In the other camp, Bray and George, egalitarian radicals, held that all people have a positive claim to share equally in the world's resources. According to them, states should ensure, through redistributive taxation and other progressive policies, that our institutions respect this common right. Locke Among the Radicals tells the forgotten story of the Lockean radicals and the crucial role they played in addressing problems latent in Locke's theory. Layman argues persuasively that some of the radicals' insights provide a blueprint for a form of liberal distributive justice possible to achieve today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190939076
ISBN-10: 0190939079
Pagini: 270
Dimensiuni: 211 x 140 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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In this fascinating exploration of overlooked nineteenth-century Lockean radicals, Daniel Layman discovers unexpected intellectual riches. Anyone interested in the history of political economy or the left-libertarian tradition generally should definitely read this book
John Locke's defense of natural property rights remains one of the most influential ideas in contemporary political philosophy. In tracing its odd career in the 19th century,Locke among the Radicalssheds new light on an old doctrine, and exemplifies the value of looking at philosophical questions through an historical lens.
This is an extremely well written, very interesting, historically and philosophically informed work on Lockean/libertarian theories of property rights. Layman's discussion of the relatively unknown work of four 19th century thinkers--Thomas Hodgskin, John Bray, Lysander Spooner, and Henry George--sheds light on contemporary issues of self-ownership, world ownership, and equality. The book will be of interest to both political philosophers/theorists and to historians of political ideas.

Notă biografică

Daniel Layman is assistant professor of philosophy at Davidson College. He is the co-author (with Michael Huemer) of Do Governments Have Moral Authority? (Routledge, 2021) and numerous articles, chapters, and reviews. Before Davidson, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Political Theory Project at Brown University.