Beschreibung:
The book is an analysis of the political thought of English radical Thomas Spence (1750-1814). Spence is here shown to be a sophisticated, modern thinker, who adopted the poor "swinish multitude" as the privileged interlocutor of his transnational "Plan" for the abolition of private landownership.
Introduction: "pearls for pigs" 1. Spence and His Worlds 2. The Modernity of the Plan 3. Into the Revolution 4. The Plan's Atlantic Theatre 5. Neither Public nor Private. Conclusion: beyond Eccentricity