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

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

by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Author)

Synopsis

This is a 1994 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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 25 Feb 1994

ISBN 10: 0521405564
ISBN 13: 9780521405560