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.
| ISBN: | 9781487592424 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1979 |
| Author: | Alkis Kontos |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 178 pages |
| Series: | Heritage |
| Genres: |
Social and political philosophy Political science and theory Economic theory and philosophy |