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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
- 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