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Record Nr.

UNINA9910483539603321

Autore

Herian Robert

Titolo

Capitalism and the equity fetish : desire, property, justice / / Robert Herian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-66523-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 225 p. 1 illus.)

Disciplina

346.004

Soggetti

Equity

Capitalism - Philosophy

Civil rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Setting the Scene -- Chapter 3: Reform economics and the ‘Plucked Rib’ of Equity -- Chapter 4: The Road to Complete Justice -- Chapter 5: Stakeholders of Capitalism -- Chapter 6: A Different Theory of Civil Justice -- Chapter 7: Fetishism in Action -- Chapter 8: Equity Fetishism -- Chapter 9: Neoliberalism & Equity Fetishism -- Chapter 10: Law and the Reality it Masks.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a provocative, interdisciplinary, and critical appraisal of civil justice, property, and the laws that shape and command them within capitalism. Dr. Herian’s book is both a complementary and countervailing narrative to many mainstream legal accounts, one that critiques core and influential areas of legal knowledge and practice. Central to the book’s thesis is a rich collaboration of ideas and perspectives that consider what is at stake from institutions, concepts, and practices of equity and civil justice tied to the subjective psychic life and the unconscious desires of capitalist stakeholders. The book aims to address several questions, including how capitalism has imagined and shaped equity and civil justice since the nineteenth century; how capitalism acts as a well-spring of desire for forms of justice that wrap-around and sustain complex frameworks of private property power and ownership; and how equity supports agile



neoliberal strategies of justice and reason in the twenty-first century. Dr. Robert Herian is Senior Lecturer at The Open University Law School (UK) and Co-Founder of the Equity and Trusts Research Network. Robert’s research encompasses equity, trusts, and property law; psychoanalysis; legal history; critical theory and philosophy. He lives in Northwest England with his partner, Chloe, and their border terrier, Billy.