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180 Days Rental Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights

180 Days Rental Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx: Culture, Needs and Property Rights
Author: István Hont;Lasse S. Andersen;Béla Kapossy;Richard Whatmore
Price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 9781009597593R
ISBN-13: 9781009597593R
Edition: -1
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Delivery: BibliU Reader
Duration: 180 Days

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István Hont (1947–2013) defected from Communist Hungary in the 1970s and became renowned globally as a scholarly visionary in European political ideas. Following his death, a wealth of unpublished material from an early project rewriting the history of liberty, politics and political economy from Samuel Pufendorf to Karl Marx was discovered. This book brings together seven of Hont's previously unpublished papers, providing a revolutionary intellectual history of the Marxian notion of communism and revealing its origin in seventeenth-century natural jurisprudence. Hont aspired to integrate the history and theory of politics and economics, to infuse present-day concerns with a knowledge of past events and theoretical responses. The essays selected for this volume realise Hont's historical imagination, range and intellectual ambition, exploring his belief that Marxism ought to be abandoned and explaining how to do it.