Democratic society and human needs /
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| Author / Creator: | Noonan, Jeff. |
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| Imprint: | Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006. |
| Description: | xxii, 265 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 42. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6234897 |
| Summary: | As anti-globalization protests show, the public is searching for ways to explain and rethink material inequity between developed democracies and those across the development divide. Jeff Noonan provides a strategy for analyzing these issues. In Democratic Society and Human Needs Noonan examines the moral grounds for liberalism and democracy, arguing that contemporary democracy was created through needs-based struggles against classical liberal rights, which are essentially exclusionary. For him, 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 265 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0773531203 9780773531208 |