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The political theory of possessive individualism : Hobbes to Locke / C.B. Macpherson ; [with a new introduction by Frank Cunningham].

Title
The political theory of possessive individualism : Hobbes to Locke / C.B. Macpherson ; [with a new introduction by Frank Cunningham].
Author
Macpherson, C. B. (Crawford Brough), 1911-1987.
Publication
Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors
Cunningham, Frank, 1940-
Description
xvii, 310 p.; 21 cm.
Series Statement
Wynford Project
Uniform Title
Wynford Project.
Subject
  • Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
  • Locke, John, 1632-1704
  • Harrington, James, 1611-1677
  • Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679
  • Locke, John, 1632-1704
  • Liberalisme
  • Individualisme
  • Individualism
  • Levellers
  • Niveleurs (Mouvement politique)
Note
  • Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1962.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references: p. [302]-303 and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction. The roots of liberal-democratic theory -- Problems of interpretation -- Hobbe : the political obligation of the market. Philosophy and political theory -- Human nature and the state of nature -- Models of society -- Political obligation -- Penetration and limits of Hobbe's political theory -- The Levellers : franchise and freedom. The problem of franchise -- Types of franchise -- The record -- Theoretical implications -- Harrington : the opportunity state. Unexamined ambiguities -- The balance and the gentry -- The bourgeois society -- The equal commonwealth and the equal agrarian -- The self-cancelling balance principle -- Harrington's stature -- Locke : the political theory of appropriation. Interpretations -- The theory of property right -- Class differentials in natural rights and rationality -- The ambiguous state of nature -- The ambiguous civil society -- Unsettled problems reconsidered -- Possessive individualism and liberal democracy. The seventeenth-century foundations -- The twentieth-century dilemma -- Appendix : Social classes and franchise classes in England, circa 1648.
ISBN
  • 9780195444018 (pbk.)
  • 0195444019 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2011500531
OCLC
  • 648388121
  • SCSB-10601129
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library