Theft Is Property! - Dispossession and Critical Theory

Robert Nichols is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Minnesota and author of The World of Freedom: Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology.

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. That Sole and Despotic Dominion  16
2. Marx, after the Feast  52
3. Indigenous Structural Critique  85
4. Dilemmas of Self-Ownership, Rituals of Antiwill  116
Conclusion  144
Notes  161
Bibliography  203
Index  225

About the author

Robert Nichols is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Minnesota and author of The World of Freedom: Heidegger, Foucault, and the Politics of Historical Ontology.

Summary

Robert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Nichols
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781478006084
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0608-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Radical Americas; Radical Américas
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore