Locke Among the Radicals

Liberty and Property in the Nineteenth Century

Daniel Layman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

2020
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-093907-6 (ISBN)

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Capitalism in the western world is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy in the face of growing inequality. But many forget that the global, capitalist world as we know it today emerged largely during the industrial revolution. Four remarkable thinkers of the long nineteenth century, the Lockean radicals--Thomas Hodgskin, Lysander Spooner, John Bray, and Henry George--responded to the horrid and rampant economic injustices at the time by picking up the loose ends of Locke's property theory and weaving them into two competing strands. Each strand addressed problems of liberty and equality then emerging from industrial capitalism, but each did so in a different way. As Daniel Layman argues, in one camp, Hodgskin and Spooner, libertarian radicals, argued that the world of resources is common to all people only in the negative sense of being originally "unowned" by anyone. According to them, there are no just grounds for state redistribution except to correct past injustices, and governments are typically little more than thieving and oppressive gangs. In the other camp, Bray and George, egalitarian radicals, held that all people have a positive claim to share equally in the world's resources. According to them, states should ensure, through redistributive taxation and other progressive policies, that our institutions respect this common right.

Locke Among the Radicals tells the forgotten story of the Lockean radicals and the crucial role they played in addressing problems latent in Locke's theory. Layman argues persuasively that some of the radicals' insights provide a blueprint for a form of liberal distributive justice possible to achieve today.

Daniel Layman is assistant professor of philosophy at Davidson College. He is the co-author (with Michael Huemer) of Do Governments Have Moral Authority? (Routledge, 2021) and numerous articles, chapters, and reviews. Before Davidson, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Political Theory Project at Brown University.

Introduction: Rights, Property and Freedom

Chapter 1: Locke's Property Problem
Chapter 2: Hodgskin's Libertarian Groundwork
Chapter 3: Spooner: A Libertarian Janus
Chapter 4: Bray's Lockean Socialism
Chapter 5: George: Land, Wealth, and Community
Chapter 6: Towards a New Left-Lockeanism

Erscheinungsdatum	08.07.2020
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	211 x 140 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-093907-9 / 0190939079
ISBN-13	978-0-19-093907-6 / 9780190939076
Zustand	Neuware