“‘They look like big, good, strong hands, don’t they? … I always thought that’s what they were.’ It is a heart wrenching line from a painful scene in the 1984 film adaptation of the children’s novel The NeverEnding Story. Rockbiter, a giant anthropomorphic stone creature, sits, forlorn. What he thought were big, good, strong hands could not hold on to his compatriots. He could not save them. His big, good, strong hands were powerless against the Nothing, a fictive metaphysical force that was consuming Fantasia and that disappeared the Rockbiter’s ‘little friends’. It was this scene and the Rockbiter’s tortured lament that prevaded my thoughts as I read and mulled over Hanoch Dagan’s A Liberal Theory of Property, which seeks to answer what may be the wickedest of property problems (What is property?) with the paradoxically simple and complex response …” (more)
[Lua Yuille, LPE Project, 1 February]
First posted 2021-02-01 17:27:53
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