Peter Garnsey

Thinking about Property

From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the historical development of some central themes about property through the ages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780521700238
• ISBN-10: 052170023X
• Artikelnr.: 22956278

Autorenporträt

Peter Garnsey is Director of Research in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, having previously been Professor of Ancient History. His recent books include Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine (1996), Food and Society in Classical Antiquity (1999), (with Caroline Humfress) The Evolution of the Late Antique World (2001) and (with Anthony Bowen) a translation of Lactantius' Divine Institutes (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Plato's 'communism', Aristotle's critique and Proclus' response
2. Plato's 'communism': from late antiquity via Islamic Spain to the Renaissance
3. Renunciation and communality: thinking through the primitive Church
4. The poverty of Christ: crises of asceticism from the Pelagians to the Franciscans
5. The state of nature and the origin of private property: Hesiod to William of Ockham
6. The state of nature and the origin of private property: Grotius to Hegel
7. Property as a legal right
8. Property as a human right
Conclusion.