Research Catalog

Title

Democratic society and human needs / Jeff Noonan.

Author

Noonan, Jeff.

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

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Details

Description

xxii, 265 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 42

Subjects

• Socialisme
• Capitalism > Political aspects
• Démocratie > Aspect social
• Capitalisme > Aspect politique
• Capitalism > Moral and ethical aspects
• Capitalisme > Aspect moral
• Socialism
• Démocratie > Aspect moral
• Democracy > Social aspects
• Democracy > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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

Call Number

JFE 07-3474

ISBN

• 0773531203
• 9780773531208

OCLC

70176321

Author

Noonan, Jeff.

Title

Democratic society and human needs / Jeff Noonan.

Imprint

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

Series

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 42

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 07-3474