Political economy from Pufendorf to Marx culture, needs and property rights István Hont ; edited by Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hont, Istvan, 1947-2013, author.

Contributor:

Andersen, Lasse S., editor.

Kapossy, Bela, 1965- editor.

Whatmore, Richard, editor.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

Gilded age and progressive era

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"István Hont (1947-2013) defected from Communist Hungary in the 1970s and became renowned globally as a scholarly visionary in European political ideas. Following his death, a wealth of unpublished material from an early project rewriting the history of liberty, politics and political economy from Samuel Pufendorf to Karl Marx was discovered. This book brings together seven of Hont's previously unpublished papers, providing a revolutionary intellectual history of the Marxian notion of communism and revealing its origin in seventeenth-century natural jurisprudence. Hont aspired to integrate the history and theory of politics and economics, to infuse present-day concerns with a knowledge of past events and theoretical responses. The essays selected for this volume realise Hont's historical imagination, range and intellectual ambition, exploring his belief that Marxism ought to be abandoned and explaining how to do it"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Theoretical history and natural law in the Scottish Enlightenment

Samuel Pufendorf's jurisprudential theory of history

Natural jurisprudence, political economy and the concept of civilisation : Samuel Pufendorf's theory of cultura

Negative community and communism : The natural law heritage from Pufendorf to Marx

The antinomies of the concept of 'use‑value' in Marx's *Capital* : Economy and polity after the market

Socialist natural law, commercial society and political economy : A contribution to the understanding of the idea of social science

Unsocial sociability : Eighteenth‑century perspectives

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed February 24, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Hont, Istvan, 1947-2013. Political economy from Pufendorf to Marx

ISBN:

9781009597562

1009597566

9781009597593

1009597590

OCLC:

1534518939

Publisher Number:

CIPO000267901

CIPO000288625

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Restricted for use by site license