The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism
Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
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Page : 332 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Ciencias políticas
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Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Philosophy
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Originally published: Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.
Author : Frank Cunningham
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319949209
Central to the thought of C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987) are his critique of the culture of ‘possessive individualism’ and his defence of liberal-democratic socialism. Resurgence of interest in his works is in reaction to the rise of neoliberalism and efforts to find an alternative to societies dominated by capitalist markets. Macpherson’s theories are explained and applied to 21st century challenges.
Author : C.B. Macpherson
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Phillip Birger Hansen
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Page : pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2015
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781442630604
"This manuscript seeks to provide a fresh and comprehensive re-interpretation of the ideas of the world-renowned Canadian Political theorist, C.B. Macpherson."--
Author : Daniel W. Bromley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2019-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0190062843
Anxiety and alienation threaten modern democracies. Political anger runs rampant in the United States, Britain voted to leave the European Union, authoritarian governments control several European countries, and millions of desperate migrants are streaming north out of the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. Many people blame stagnant household incomes and economic inequality. However, Possessive Individualism argues that the origins of world disorder are in the failure of the Enlightenment to anticipate the acquisitive individual as a creature of global capitalism. Daniel Bromley provides a fundamental critique of contemporary capitalism to explain why the world now finds itself in widespread disorder. Capitalism's basic flaw, he argues, is "possessive individualism." Glorification of the rational individual motivated by acquisitiveness prevents the adoption of necessary government programs that would ease the economic burden on beleaguered households. Meanwhile, possessive individualism enables managerial capitalism-controlled by the "one percent"-to suppress wages and salaries, embrace automation, and move jobs overseas. Capitalism is no longer an engine of improved livelihoods and social hope. Drawing on evolutionary institutional economics and political theory this book offers two remedies to the crisis of modern capitalism. Escape from the crisis requires that the isolated acquisitive individual rediscovers a sense of loyalty to others-as neighbors, as colleagues, and as participants in the shared social process of living. Escape also requires that the private firm be reimagined as a public trust in which the economic well-being of employees becomes a central part of its purpose. In the absence of these dual transformations, capitalism as we know it cannot endure.
Author : Joseph H. Carens
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791414576
C. B. Macpherson was one of the leading political theorists in North America and perhaps the most influential voice on the left for a view of liberal democracy that was simultaneously sympathetic to its aspirations and critical of its achievements. His work provides the contributors to this volume with a common starting point from which to reflect upon the possibilities for critical perspectives on liberal democracy in light of the demise of its Marxist rival. The volume as a whole addresses the following questions: What (if anything) remains valid in previous left critiques of liberal democracy (including Marxist critiques)? And what new critical and constructive alternatives can the left offer to challenge the status quo? The contributors to this volume, from both the Anglo-American and Continental traditions, include Joseph Carens, William Connolly, Virginia Held, John Keane, Ernesto Laclau, William Leiss, Jane Mansbridge, Louise Marcil-Lacoste, Mihailo Markovic, Chantal Mouffe, Nancy Rosenblum, and James Tully.
Author : Peter Lindsay
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 1996-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791430569
Constructs a cohesive picture of political theorist C. B. Macpherson's democratic vision, arguing that Macpherson's central message regarding the economic prerequisites of democracy is just as relevant today as when he first presented it.
Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
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Page : 310 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 1964
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