Property and Freedom in Kant, Hegel, and Marx

In Victoria Fareld & Hannes Kuch (eds.), From Marx to Hegel and Back. Bloomsbury. pp. 73=90 (2020)
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Abstract

In this chapter, I criticize some common approaches to conceptualizing property, and I propose instead a more normatively attuned, historically situated framework for thinking about what it means to call something mine. Whereas many legal theorists are busy constructing elaborate doctrines for justifying the absolute supremacy of property rights (and, consequently, normalizing the status quo distribution of wealth), I am more interested in understanding the social bonds, normative expectations, and material constraints produced in property relations. I do this with the help of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, each of whom placed property in relation to the development and denial of human freedom. But first, I discuss my shirt.

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Jacob Blumenfeld
University of Oldenburg

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