Dear All,
We hope that this finds you all well.
We are very happy to announce that the major work of Professor Shinya
Tateiwa, who heads our Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University,
Kyoto, is now available in English in ePUB and Kindle (mobile).
For details please visit the following;
http://www.arsvi.com/ts/2016b2.htm#t
Below you find
(A) the first part of the preface to readers of the English version,
(B) table of contents, and
(C) information on how to purchase a copy on-line for 10 USD.
(A) Preface (2016, to Readers of the English Version)
1 Possession, Property, Ownership
As the title says, this is a book about "property," but at the same time, as
discussed in the second item below, it is also a book about "ableism."
The English words "possession," "property," and "ownership" can all be
translated using the Japanese word "shoyû." I wrote this book without
thinking about the differences between these terms in English. Take, for
example, The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism (Macpherson
[1962=1980]. Here and throughout the text, the year after the "=" following
a citation indicates the year of publication of the Japanese translation), a
book I read when I was eighteen years old and first becoming interested in
this topic, Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality (Cohen[1995=2005]),
published many years later, and Property (Ryan[1987=1993]) - "shoyû" was
used in the title of all of these books when they were published in
Japanese. I was not sure which term I should choose when it came to the
English title of my own book. Chapters 1 and 2 mainly involve the
presentation and criticism of a position taken by various thinkers beginning
with John Locke. This view, boiled down to its simplest formulation, is
"what I make is mine (something over which I should have control)," and in
these chapters the terms "ownership" and "self-ownership" are frequently
employed.
In Chapter 4, on the other hand, I discuss what is attributed or not
attributed to each person as something proper to them or inherently theirs.
Here, and this will surely seem quite strange to those familiar with the
existing discourse on this topic, I develop the assertion that what is not
proper to the person in question should be distributed among all individuals
– they should be given ownership of it - as the target of actions such as
exchange. The term "property" is therefore used more often here.
My ability in English is limited to reading, and this book was therefore
translated by someone else (Robert Chapeskie). There were a few places in
which I made changes to the terms used, but for the most part these wordings
were chosen by the translator.
(B) Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Theme of Private Ownership Chapter 2 The Groundlessness and
Grounding of Private Ownership Chapter 3 How Far has Criticism Been Taken?
Chapter 4 The Other
Chapter 5 The Problem of Drawing Lines
Chapter 6 Politics towards the Individual Chapter 7 Alternate Routes and
Dead Ends Chapter 8 An Affirmation of Ableism that Rejects Ableism Chapter 9
Dealing with Correct Eugenics Notes Bibliography
(C) How to Purchase a Copy
Go to https://gumroad.com/products/nlHpZ and choose "English" at the bottom
for instruction.
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