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100 _aNoonan, Jeff.
245 _aDemocratic society and human needs /
_cJeff Noonan.
260 _aMontreal :
_bMcGill-Queen`s University Press,
_cc2006.
300 _axxii, 265 p. ;
_c24 cm.
440 _aMcGill-Queen`s studies in the history of ideas ;
_v42
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [249]-258 and index.
505 _aThe 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.
650 _aDemocracy
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 _aDemocracy
_xSocial aspects.
650 _aCapitalism
_xPolitical aspects.
650 _aCapitalism
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 _aSocialism.
650 _aDémocratie
_xAspect moral.
650 _aDémocratie
_xAspect social.
650 _aCapitalisme
_xAspect politique.
650 _aCapitalisme
_xAspect moral.
650 _aSocialisme.
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