Property and Person (or the Birth of the Juridical Subject)

John Rosenthal
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Chapter 5 in The Myth of Dialectics, 1998, pp 60-65 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract To resume our findings from the previous chapter, the categories of social relation whose historical conditions of validity remain obscured in the analyses of the political economists are of the nature of , practical concepts, of economic activity. That these , practical concepts, are peculiarly susceptible to dehistoricization issues from the fact that they are not explicit but rather covert categories of social relation, since for the purposes of the economic agents who apply them, it is in fact sufficient that they serve to pick out specific sorts of physical thing. Paradoxically, however, these specific sorts are not essentially distinguished by any physical feature or features which the items belonging to them share in common, but rather by , social properties, which, as we have seen, these items acquire by virtue of the role they play within the exchange system.

Keywords: Social Relation; Economic Agent; Exchange Relation; Social Formation; Legal Person (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230371842_5

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