The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Contents
I: Introduction
	1. The roots of liberal-democratic theory
	2. Problems of interpretation
II: Hobbes : the political obligation of the market
	1. Philosophy and political theory
	2. Human nature and the state of nature
	3. Models of society
	4. Political obligation
	5. Penetration and limits of Hobbe's political theory
III: The Levellers : franchise and freedom
	1. The problem of franchise
	2. Types of franchise
	3. The record
	4. Theoretical implications
IV: Harrington : the opportunity state
	1. Unexamined ambiguities
	2. The balance and the gentry
	3. The bourgeois society
	4. The equal commonwealth and the equal agrarian
	5. The self-cancelling balance principle
	6. Harrington's stature
V: Locke : the political theory of appropriation
	1. Interpretations
	2. The theory of property right
	3. Class differentials in natural rights and rationality
	4. The ambiguous state of nature
	5. The ambiguous civil society
	6. Unsettled problems reconsidered
VI: Possessive individualism and liberal democracy
	1. The seventeenth-century foundations
	2. The twentieth-century dilemma
Appendix: Social classes and franchise classes in England, circa 1648
Notes
Works and Editions Cited
Index