{"product_id":"the-abuse-of-property-isbn-9780262545501","title":"The Abuse of Property","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fundamental critique of the current property regime, calling for radical social and political change.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Abuse of Property\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Loick offers a multifaceted philosophical critique of the concept of property, broadly understood. He argues that property should not be the dominant framework in which human beings regulate the use of things, that property is not the same as use. Property rights, in his view, are not conditions of freedom or justice, but deficient, dysfunctional, and harmful ways of interacting with other people and the natural environment. He dissects not only the classic justifications of property (from John Locke's justification of property as a natural right based on individual freedom to Hegel's justification of property as a form of mutual recognition) but also the classic critiques of property, from Proudhon and Marx up to Adorno and Agamben.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough an innovative critical approach to legal studies, Loick demonstrates how the concept of property, historically applied to things and people and still a linchpin of our distorted relation with the world, forms a direct line from the Occupy movement to Black Lives Matter and beyond.Better Squat than Rot ix\u003cbr\u003e1 The Use of Property 1\u003cbr\u003eThe Liberal Justification of Property 2\u003cbr\u003eThe Ontological Justification of Property 20\u003cbr\u003e2 The Abuse of Property 39\u003cbr\u003eThe Social Critique of Property 42\u003cbr\u003eThe Ethical Critique of Property 53\u003cbr\u003eThe Political Critique of Property 70\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Not Being at Home in One's Home 85\u003cbr\u003eAfterword to the English Edition: From Occupy to Abolition 87\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 99\u003cbr\u003eNotes 101\u003cb\u003eIncluded in \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Fall 2023 Adult Announcements Politics \u0026amp; Current Events list\u003c\/b\u003e“With searing clarity, Daniel Loïck presents a highly sophisticated, urgent, and necessary interrogation of ‘the tragedy of property.’ Breathing new life into the social, political, and ethical critiques of private forms of ownership, Loïck offers us a novel and sorely needed reconceptualization of the concept of use as a basis for radical political and social movements. Upending complacent notions of the commons, Loïck illuminates how squatting and occupying, along with movements for landback and abolition, centre repair over destruction and collective life over individual profit. This book is an indispensable read for scholars, students, and activists alike.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Brenna Bhandar, author of \u003ci\u003eColonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDaniel Loick is Associate Professor in Political and Social Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Critique of Sovereignty \u003c\/i\u003eand other works.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300009496805,"sku":"NP9780262545501","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262545501.jpg?v=1767737992","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-abuse-of-property-isbn-9780262545501","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}