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Thinking about property : From antiquity to the age of revolution / Peter Garnsey.

By: Series: Ideas in context ; 90Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: x, 267 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521876773 (hbk.)
  • 052187677X (hbk.)
  • 9780521700238 (pbk.)
  • 052170023X (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.1701 GAR 22
LOC classification:
  • HB701 .G268 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-261) and index.

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.

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