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SELF-OWNERSHIP, FREEDOM, AND EQUALITY
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| By: |
G. A. Cohen, Jon Elster, John E. Roemer |
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Paperback |
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£22.99 |
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£20.12 |
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£2.87 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521477514 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521477512 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 October, 1995 |
| Series: |
Studies in Marxism and Social Theory |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
This text examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. The author argues that self-ownership cannot deliver the freedom it promises to secure. |
| Synopsis: |
In this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. This principle is used to defend capitalist inequality, which is said to reflect each person's freedom to do as as he wishes with himself. The author argues that self-ownership cannot deliver the freedom it promises to secure, thereby undermining the idea that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. He goes on to show that the standard Marxist condemnation of exploitation implies an endorsement of self-ownership, since, in the Marxist conception, the employer steals from the worker what should belong to her, because she produced it. Thereby a deeply inegalitarian notion has penetrated what is in aspiration an egalitarian theory. Purging that notion from socialist thought, he argues, enables construction of a more consistent egalitarianism. |
| Illustrations: |
1 b/w illus. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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Returnable |
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