Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution

by Peter Garnsey

Book Overview

This book explores ancient 'foundational' texts relating to property and their reception by later thinkers in their various contexts up to the early nineteenth century. The texts include Plato's vision of an ideal polity in the Republic, Jesus' teachings on renunciation and poverty, and Golden Age narratives and other evolutionary accounts of the transition of mankind from primeval communality to regimes of ownership. The issue of the legitimacy of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052170023X
• ISBN13: 9780521700238
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"