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📽 "The Great Demarcation. The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property" with Rafe Blaufarb

💭 What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries between private and public property? Over the course of a decade, the French Revolution grappled with these questions and brought about a Great Demarcation: a radical distinction between property and power. From there flowed the critical distinctions between the political and the social, state and society, sovereignty and ownership, the public and private. It destroyed the conceptual basis of the Old Regime, laid the foundation of France’s new constitutional order. It also crystallized modern ways of thinking about polities and societies. In other words, by tracing how the French Revolution created a new legal and institutional reality, The Great Demarcation shows how the revolutionary transformation of Old Regime property helped inaugurate political modernity.

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📚 Rafe Blaufarb, The Great Demarcation. The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property, Oxford University Press, 2019.

📌 The Debates on equality are organized by the World Inequality Lab: www.wid.world.
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