Proudhon: What is Property? (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Softcover

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521405564 ISBN 13: 9780521405560

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Proudhon: What is Property?

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Book Description:

This is a 1994 translation of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's What is Property? (1840), one of the classics of political thought and a notorious and influential critique of the central institution of modern Western society, the private ownership of property.

Synopsis:

This is a new translation of one of the classics of the traditions of anarchism and socialism. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a contemporary of Marx and one of the most acute, influential, and subversive critics of modern French and European society. His What is Property? (1840) produced the answer 'Property is theft'; the book itself has become a classic of political thought through its wide-ranging and deep-reaching critique of private property as at once the essential institution of Western culture and the root cause of greed, corruption, political tyranny, social division, and violation of natural law. A critical and historical introduction situates Proudhon's 'diabolical work' (as he called it) in the context of nineteenth-century social and legal controversy and of the history of political thought in general.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521405564
• ISBN 13: 9780521405560
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270