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DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY AND HUMAN NEEDS This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:02:14 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas SeriesEditor:PhilipJ.Cercone 1 Problems of Cartesianism 10 Consent, Coercion, and Limit Edited by Thomas M. Lennon, The Medieval Origins of John M. Nicholas, and John W. Davis Parliamentary Democracy 2 The Development of the Idea Arthur P. Monahan of History in Antiquity 11 Scottish Common Sense in Gerald A. Press Germany,1768–1800 3 Claude Buffier and Thomas Reid A Contribution to the History Two Common-Sense Philosophers of Critical Philosophy Louise Marcil-Lacoste Manfred Kuehn 4 Schiller, Hegel, and Marx 12 Paine and Cobbett State, Society, and the Aesthetic The Transatlantic Connection Ideal of Ancient Greece David A. Wilson Philip J. Kain 5 John Case and Aristotelianism in 13 Descartes and the Enlightenment Renaissance England Peter A. Schouls Charles B. Schmitt 14 Greek Scepticism 6 Beyond Liberty and Property Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient The Process of Self-Recognition in Thought Eighteenth-Century Political Leo Groarke Thought 15 The Irony of Theology J.A.W. Gunn and the Nature of Religious 7 John Toland: His Methods, Thought Manners, and Mind Donald Wiebe Stephen H. Daniel 16 Form and Transformation 8 Coleridge and the Inspired Word A Study in the Philosophy Anthony John Harding of Plotinus 9 The Jena System,1804–5: Frederic M. Schroeder Logic and Metaphysics G.W. F. Hegel 17 From Personal Duties Translation edited by towards Personal Rights John W. Burbidge and Late Medieval and Early Modern George di Giovanni Political Thought, c.1300–c.1650 Introduction and notes by H.S. Harris Arthur P. Monahan This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:02:14 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 18 The Main Philosophical Writings 28 Enlightenment and Community and the NovelAllwill Lessing, Abbt, Herder, and the Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Quest for a German Public Translated and edited by Benjamin W. Redekop George di Giovanni 29 Jacob Burckhardt and 19 Kierkegaard as Humanist the Crisis of Modernity Discovering My Self John R. Hinde Arnold B. Come 30 The Distant Relation 20 Durkheim, Morals, and Modernity Time and Identity in Spanish- W. Watts Miller American Fiction 21 The Career of Toleration Eoin S. Thomson John Locke, Jonas Proast, and After 31 Mr Simson’s Knotty Case Richard Vernon Divinity, Politics, and Due Process 22 Dialectic of Love in Early Eighteenth-Century Platonism in Schiller’s Aesthetics Scotland David Pugh Anne Skoczylas 23 History and Memory 32 Orthodoxy and Enlightenment in Ancient Greece George Campbell in the Eighteenth Gordon Shrimpton Century 24 Kierkegaard as Theologian Jeffrey M. Suderman Recovering My Self 33 Contemplation and Incarnation Arnold B. Come The Theology of Marie-Dominique 25 Enlightenment and Conservatism Chenu in Victorian Scotland Christophe F. Potworowski The Career of Sir Archibald Alison 34 Democratic Legitimacy Michael Michie Plural Values and Political Power 26 The Road to Egdon Heath F.M. Barnard The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature 35 Herder on Nationality, Humanity, Richard Bevis and History F.M. Barnard 27 Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Böhme 36 Labeling People Theosophy – Hagiography – French Scholars on Society, Race, Literature and Empire,1815–1848 Paolo Mayer Martin S. Staum This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:02:14 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 37 The Subaltern Appeal 40 Reason and Self-Enactment to Experience in History and Politics Self-Identity, Late Modernity, and Themes and Voices of Modernity the Politics of Immediacy F.M. Barnard Craig Ireland 41 The More Moderate Side 38 The Invention of of Joseph de Maistre Journalism Ethics Views on Political Liberty and The Path to Objectivity and Beyond Political Economy Stephen J.A. Ward Cara Camcastle 39 The Recovery of Wonder 42 Democratic Society and The New Freedom and Human Needs the Asceticism of Power Jeff Noonan Kenneth L. Schmitz This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:02:14 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY AND HUMAN NEEDS Jeff Noonan McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston London Ithaca (cid:2) (cid:2) This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:02:14 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms © McGill–Queen’sUniversityPress2006 isbn-13:978-0-7735-3120-8 isbn-10:0-7735-3120-3 Legaldepositfourthquarter2006 BibliothèquenationaleduQuébec PrintedinCanadaonacid-freepaper Thisbookhasbeenpublishedwiththehelpofagrantfromthe CanadianFederationfortheHumanitiesandSocialSciences, throughtheAidtoScholarlyPublicationsProgramme,using fundsprovidedbytheSocialSciencesandHumanitiesResearch CouncilofCanada.Agranthasalsobeenreceivedfromthe UniversityofWindsor,OfficeoftheDean,FacultyofArtsand Sciences. McGill-Queen’sUniversityPressacknowledgesthesupportofthe CanadaCouncilfortheArtsforourpublishingprogram.Wealso acknowledgethefinancialsupportoftheGovernmentofCanada throughtheBookPublishingIndustryDevelopmentProgram (bpidp)forourpublishingactivities. LibraryandArchivesCanadaCataloguinginPublication Noonan,Jeff Democraticsocietyandhumanneeds/JeffNoonan. (McGill-Queen’sstudiesinthehistoryofideas;42) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn-13:978-0-7735-3120-8 isbn-10:0-7735-3120-3 1.Democracy–Moralandethicalaspects.2.Democracy–Social aspects.3.Capitalism–Politicalaspects.4.Capitalism–Moral andethicalaspects.5.Socialism.i.Title.ii.Series. jc423.n6292006 321.8 c2006-903087-1 TypesetbyJayTeeGraphicsLtd.inNewBaskerville10/12 This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:02:14 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction:TowardaRenewedCritiqueofLiberalCapitalism xi part one the emergence of liberal social morality 1 TheSocialContextofEarlyLiberalTheory 3 2 TheEvolutionofRights-BasedSocialMorality: HobbestoJamesMill 10 3 CaseStudyinAnti-DemocraticLiberalism: ThePropertyDefenceLeague 38 4 LiberalRights-BasedSocialMoralityandItsSocial Presuppositions 44 part two the emergence of needs-based social morality 5 CapitalismasMoralRevolution 53 6 GerrardWinstanley:FreedomandtheNeedsofLife 59 7 TheDialecticofRightsandNeedsintheFrenchRevolution 69 8 NeedsandSocialStrugglesinEnglandandFrancein theNineteenthCentury 91 9 SocialismandDemocraticNeedSatisfaction 111 This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:02:17 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms viii Contents part three the evolution of classical liberal social morality 10 SocialRights 133 11 JohnRawls:Self-Determination–MoralorMaterial? 141 12 Habermas’sOne-DimensionalDemocracy 159 13 ChantalMouffe:TheSelf-Contradictions of“Political”Democracy 185 part four a project for social democratization 14 TheReactionAgainstSocialDemocratization 201 15 Needs-BasedSocialMorality,theLifeGroundofValue, andtheGoodforHumanBeings 214 16 NegotiatedCoordinationandtheProjectfor aDemocraticSociety 227 Bibiliography 249 Index 259 This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:02:17 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgments plato idealized the philosopher as a solitary contemplator of the truth, but his own practice, and the practice of every philosopher who has succeeded him, puts paid to that myth. Philosophy presupposes content, and content presupposes the existence of a world outside the thinkerandthethoughtsofothersaboutthatworld.Hence,whileone must take responsibility for the contributions to philosophical inquiry andcriticismthatonetriestomake,onealsoincursinnumerabledebts in the struggle to make one’s case. These debts are in the first place general, to those who make intellectual work possible. I must, there- fore, first thank my family and my partner, Josephine, without whose supportIwouldnotbewhereIamtoday.ImustalsothanktheOfficeof the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Science for its support. As well, my colleagues in the Philosophy Department at the University of Windsor have been endlessly supportive of my work over the past nine years. Particular debts are also incurred along the way of writing and refining a book. In this regard I would like to thank my research assis- tantsoverthepastthreeyearsHeatherGreig,PetrCarvalho,andHolly Sweet, who patiently tracked down articles and references. Particular thanks are also owed to my colleague Deborah Cook, whose expertise, particularly with regard to Habermas, was essential in developing my ownthinking.EvanSimpsonofMemorialUniversityreadaspectsofthe argument about needs in a different permutation, and his comments sharpenedmyownthinking.DiscussionswithAlison Assiter of the Uni- versity of the West of England also opened my eyes to certain tensions inmyunderstandingofneeds.VictorWillis,oftheParkdaleAreaRecre- ation Centre, graciously gave his time to discuss his centre’s housing project. The anonymous readers chosen by McGill-Queen’s Press pro- This content downloaded from 129.174.21.5 on Sat, 25 Jun 2016 05:02:18 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms