The normative foundations of property: Liberty, common and sustainable ownership
Outline
A still-relevant strategy of reasoning employed frequently by classic theories of ownership derives ownership and its legitimisation from the concept of liberty. The project explores this relationship from opposed perspectives. On the one hand, exemplary theories are used to a) critically question the aforementioned notion, b) contextualise it within the history of philosophy, and c) challenge it by applying non-European philosophical traditions.
On the other hand, the project uses a normative notion of freedom to develop common and sustainable approaches to ownership and derive obligations of sustainability from the supposed relationship itself, rather than using them to argue against the concept of ownership.
Project activities
Events
2023
- Workshop with youth book project “Wem gehört die Welt? Wem gehöre ich?”
2022
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Organisation and implementation of the Dialograum Eigentum, in the context of the annual conference 2022 of the SFB. (04.-05.10.2022)
2021
- Manuscript workshop “Die Rechte der Natur. Vom Nachhaltigen Eigentum”. (03.12.2021)
- Research retreat “Normative Eigentumstheorien” in Letschin (04.-07.11.2021)
- Workshop “Pragmatismus und Eigentum” in Jena (14.10.2021)
- Reading day “Eigentum im Pragmatismus” in Jena (22.07.2021)
Lectures
- Beitrag „Klasse“ (Zum Verhältnis von Eigentum und Klasse bei Immanuel Kant) im Rahmen des taz-lab 2022 („Klasse und Klima“) in der Reihe „Klassenzimmer“.
- Abschlusskommentar im Rahmen des Workshops „Dimensions of Property in Reproductive Economies: Practices, Interpretations, and Discourses“ durch Yann Schosser.
