Democratic Society and Human Needs

By Jeff Noonan

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773531203
• ISBN13: 9780773531208
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.