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.

Summary

"Democratic Society and Human Needs is an assessment of liberal, rights-based social morality from the perspective of an alternative, needs-based system. For Jeff Noonan, a democratic society is one in which human beings collectively control necessary life-resources, using them to promote the essential human value of free capability realization. His critique of globalization and liberal capitalism vindicates radical social and economic democratization and provides an essential step towards understanding the vast discrepancies between rich and poor within and between democratic countries."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

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

Subject

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 0773531203
• 9780773531208

OCLC

• 70176321
• SCSB-12454006

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library