Democratic Society And Human Needs (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: October 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780773531208
Subjects: Globalization; Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies; Political structures: democracy; Political Science; Philosophy; Politics/International Relations; Political; Political Ideologies - Democracy
Description: "Democratic Society and Human Needs is an assessment of liberal, rights-based social morality from the perspective of an alternative, needs-based system. For Jeff Noonan, 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."--BOOK JACKET.