Open AccessOn the blinding clarity of property rights: Seven fragments of reductionism in the theory of property
Author(s) -
Aleksandar Stojanović
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
filozofija i društvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2334-8577
pISSN - 0353-5738
DOI - 10.2298/fid1802219s
Subject(s) - reductionism , property (philosophy) , epistemology , property rights , clarity , sociology , opposition (politics) , binary opposition , focus (optics) , law and economics , private property , law , political science , philosophy , politics , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , optics
This paper presents a historical commentary on arguments in theory of property that reinforce the vision of strong and clear property rights dominant in developmental policy today. Building upon the article from Duncan Kennedy in 2013 that analyses this vision, this paper tackles additional issues in emergence of the vision. In doing that the paper relies on broadly genealogical approach to focus on a binary opposition that has been present in the theory of property almost since its historical establishment in Western thought. This methodology allows us to conceptualize the problem in more substantive terms than Kennedy does and show how radical shift is necessary to overcome the problems that the vision entails.