Die Zugehörigkeit der Dinge zu den Menschen

Western Culture knows only a single judicial concept of ownership: private property. Private property meaning, all things belong to people in the same normalized way. A closer look reveals that our relationship with things is more complex than that and confirms a gradual belonging of things to persons that stretches from an organic or intimate property to things being only vaguely attached to persons. This essay tries to outline this plural concept of ways of owning

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Linguistics · Plural · Political science · Private property · Sociology · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Law · Philosophy