Bart J Wilson, The Meaning of Property in Things in The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind (forthcoming 2020), available at SSRN. What is the meaning of ‘property’? If you think there cannot be a fresh and intriguing perspective yet to offer on that question, you’ll be pleased and surprised to read the new work by Professor Bart Wilson. In the opening chapter for his forthcoming book, The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind, Dr Wilson challenges scholars of all disciplines to reconsider their prior assumptions about the origins of property and its meaning. In doing so, he announces in the chapter’s opening line the claim he sets out to defend in the book: ‘Property is a universal and uniquely human custom’ … (more)
[Donald Kochan, JOTWELL, 18 December]
First posted 2019-12-18 14:51:36
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