Democratic society and human needs /
Jeff Noonan.
- Montreal : McGill-Queen`s University Press, c2006.
- xxii, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
- McGill-Queen`s studies in the history of ideas ; 42 .
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.