{"product_id":"the-dispossessed-daniel-bensad-9781517903855","title":"The Dispossessed: Karl Marx's Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExcavating Marx's early writings to rethink the rights of the poor and the idea of the commons in an era of unprecedented privatization\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe politics of dispossession are everywhere. Troubling developments in intellectual property, genomics, and biotechnology are undermining established concepts of property, while land appropriation and ecological crises reconfigure basic institutions of ownership. In \u003ci\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Bensa d examines Karl Marx's early writings to establish a new framework for addressing the rights of the poor, the idea of the commons, and private property as a social institution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his series of articles from 1842-43 about Rhineland parliamentary debates over the privatization of public lands and criminalization of poverty under the rubric of the \"theft of wood,\" Marx identified broader anxieties about customary law, property rights, and capitalist efforts to privatize the commons. Bensa d studies these writings to interrogate how dispossession continues to function today as a key modality of power. Brilliantly tacking between past and present, \u003ci\u003eThe Dispossessed\u003c\/i\u003e discloses continuity and rupture in our relationships to property and, through that, to one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Bensa d's prescient work of political philosophy, \u003ci\u003eThe Dispossessed \u003c\/i\u003eincludes new translations of Marx's original \"theft of wood\" articles and an introductory essay by Robert Nichols that lucidly contextualizes the essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Bensa?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517903858\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517903855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Daniel Bensa?","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995939602687,"sku":"9781517903855","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_56b7427f-cb7b-422d-850c-8781f721ee36.jpg?v=1683338756","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dispossessed-daniel-bensad-9781517903855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}