Democratic Society and Human Needs

副标题: TowardsaRenewedCritiqueofLiberalCapitalism.-

ISBN: 9780773531208

出版社: McGill Queens Univ Pr

出版年: 2006-10

页数: 274

定价: $ 107.35

装帧: HRD

内容简介

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.