CB Macpherson

Crawford Brough Macpherson (born November 18, 1911 , † July 22, 1987 ) was a Canadian political scientist at the University of Toronto .

Macpherson was best known for his Marxist-inspired reinterpretation of liberalism , especially the works of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke . He wrote other important writings on democratic theory .

Macpherson graduated from the University of Toronto in 1933 and earned an M.Sc. from 1933 to 1935. at the London School of Economics . He taught in Toronto from 1935, where he became professor of political economy in 1955. He often taught as a visiting professor at English universities. From 1956 he was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada , he was also a fellow of Churchill College of Cambridge University .

The Canadian Political Science Association's C. B. Macpherson Prize is named after him. It is awarded every two years to the best Canadian author of a book on political theory.

Works

• Democracy in Alberta: The Theory and Practice of a Quasi-Party System (1953)
• The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke . Oxford: Clarendon, 1962. Rpt. (OUP paperback). 1964. 1990. (German as: The political theory of property individualism ; Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, ​​1990, 3rd edition)
• The Real Wold of Democracy (1966), (German as Drei Formen der Demokratie ; Frankfurt a. M.: Europäische Verlagsanstalt, 1967)
• The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy (1977) (German as democracy theory, Munich: Beck, 1977, 1st ed.)
• Burke . (Past Masters). Oxford: Oxford UP, 1980
• The Rise and Fall of Economic Justice.
• Leviathan (ed.). By Thomas Hobbes. Harmondsworth: Penguin, various editions from 1968

literature

• Kontos, Alkis: Essays in honor of CB Macpherson Powers Possessions and Freedom. Toronto .: University Of Toronto Press, [1979].
• Leiss, William: CB Macpherson: Dilemmas of Liberalism and Socialism St. Martin's Press (June 1, 1989)

Web links

• Literature by and about CB Macpherson in the catalog of the German National Library