Democratic society and human needs / Jeff Noonan.

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Noonan, Jeff

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideasPublication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c 2006.Description: xxii, 265 p.; 23 cmISBN:

9780773531208

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DDC classification:

22 321.8 NOO

Contents:

1. The social context of early liberal theory -- 2. The evolution of rights-based social morality : Hobbes to James Mill -- 3. Case study in anti-democratic liberalism : the Property Defence League -- 4. Liberal rights-based social morality and its social presuppositions -- 5. Capitalism as moral revolution -- 6. Gerrard Winstanley: freedom and the needs of life -- 7. The dialectic of rights and needs in the French Revolution -- 8. Needs and social struggles in England and France in the nineteenth century -- 9. Socialism and democratic need satisfaction -- 10. John Rawls: self-determination: moral or material? -- 11. Habermas's one-dimensional democracy -- 12. Chantal Mouffe: the self-contradictions of 'political' democracy -- 13. The reaction against social democratization -- 14. Needs-based social morality, the life ground of value, and the good for human beings -- 15. Negotiated coordination and the project for a democratic society.

Summary: As anti-globalization protests show, the public is searching for ways to explain and rethink material inequity between developed democracies and those across the development divide. This work provides a strategy for analyzing these issues. It examines the moral grounds for liberalism and democracy.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
General Books	CUTN Central Library Social Sciences	Non-fiction	321.8 NOO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		43218

1. The social context of early liberal theory --
2. The evolution of rights-based social morality : Hobbes to James Mill --
3. Case study in anti-democratic liberalism : the Property Defence League --
4. Liberal rights-based social morality and its social presuppositions --
5. Capitalism as moral revolution --
6. Gerrard Winstanley: freedom and the needs of life --
7. The dialectic of rights and needs in the French Revolution --
8. Needs and social struggles in England and France in the nineteenth century --
9. Socialism and democratic need satisfaction --

10. John Rawls: self-determination: moral or material? --
11. Habermas's one-dimensional democracy --
12. Chantal Mouffe: the self-contradictions of 'political' democracy --
13. The reaction against social democratization --
14. Needs-based social morality, the life ground of value, and the good for human beings --
15. Negotiated coordination and the project for a democratic society.

As anti-globalization protests show, the public is searching for ways to explain and rethink material inequity between developed democracies and those across the development divide. This work provides a strategy for analyzing these issues. It examines the moral grounds for liberalism and democracy.

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