The Political Thought of Thomas Spence: Beyond Poverty and Empire

ISBN-13: 9781032062921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 274 str.

Matilde Cazzola

Opis

The book is an analysis of the political thought of English radical Thomas Spence (1750–1814). Spence is here shown to be a sophisticated, modern thinker, who adopted the poor "swinish multitude" as the privileged interlocutor of his transnational "Plan" for the abolition of private landownership.

Spis treści

Introduction: "pearls for pigs"  1. Spence and His Worlds  2. The Modernity of the Plan  3. Into the Revolution  4. The Plan’s Atlantic Theatre  5. Neither Public nor Private.  Conclusion: beyond Eccentricity

O autorze

Matilde Cazzola is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt Am Main.