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Political Science General

Democratic Society and Human Needs

by (author) Jeff Noonan

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2006
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773531208
    Publish Date
    Oct 2006
    List Price
    $125.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773577466
    Publish Date
    Oct 2006
    List Price
    $95.00

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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.

About the author

Jeff Noonan is professor of philosophy at the University of Windsor and author of Critical Humanism and the Politics of Difference, Democratic Society and Human Needs, and Materialist Ethics and Life-Value.

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