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<p>Se desarrolla un análisis de la democracia</p>

Crawford Brough Macpherson has been teaching at the University of Toronto for some forty years, building an international reputation through his identification and critique of possessive individualism as a core concept in Western liberal democratic theory. The essays brought together here from eminent scholars all over the English-speaking world are independent statements on the issues that preoccupy Macpherson - powers, possessions, and freedom, the central problems in political theory. They are arranged in a historical sequence, touching on the thought of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx, and Macpherson himself, and facing with vigour and originality the dilemmas of liberal-democratic and Marxian theory of social and political life. It concludes with an explication by the editor of the inner parable of Durrenmatt's play, The Visit, as a profound critique of capitalism, and with a bibliography of Macpherson's published work

WHILE SOCIETY IS BECOMING MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE WAY WE ARE USING UP OUR NATURAL RESOURCES AND DESTROYING THE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE OF NATURE, THERE IS A LACK OF DOING ANYTHING EFFECTIVE ABOUT IT. THE AUTHOR ASSERTS THAT THIS DIFFICULTY EXISTS BECAUSE ANY EFFECTIVE ACTION WOULD CONTRADICT THE CONCEPT AND INSTITUTION OF INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY. THIS WILL HAVE TO BE SOLVED BY OUR POLITICIANS.