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100			_aCohen G A
245			_aSelf-ownership, freedom and equality / _cG.A. Cohan
260			_aCambridge _bCambridge University Press _c1995
300			_aix, 277 pages _c24 cm.
365			_bRs. 2670.00
505			_aPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: history, ethics and Marxism; 1. How patterns preserve liberty Robert Nozick and Wilt Chamberlain; 2. Freedom, justice and market transactions; 3. Self-ownership, world-ownership, and equality; 4. Are freedom and equality compatible; 5. Self-ownership, communism, and equality: against the Marxist technological fix:; 6. Marxism and contemporary political philosophy, or: why Nozick exercises some Marxists more than he does any egalitarian liberals; 7. Marx and Locke on land and labour; 8. Exploitation in Marx: what makes it unjust?; 9. Self-ownership: delineating the concept; 10. Self-ownership: assessing the thesis; 11. The future of a disillusion; Bibliography; Index of names; Subject index.
520			_aIn 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 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. Cohen is a star name in political philosophy and Marxist theory - one of the leading socialist thinkers in the world Here he attacks one of the central tenets of capitalism - the idea that inequality is the price which has to be paid for freedom Will be bought by scholars throughout philosophy and social science departments, and will also be used on many advanced courses (compare Elster's books)
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