Democratic society and human needs / Jeff Noonan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 42Publication details: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.Description: xxii, 265 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0773531203
  • 9780773531208
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8 NOO 22
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258 and index.

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.

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