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.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487589417; 9783110490947
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487589417
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Alkis Kontos.

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.