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Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCAL:B4400938
Collection of essays in political science, applied specifically to future problems of democracy.
Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:B4916239
The essays brought together here are from eminetn scholars all over the English-speaking world are independent statements on the issues that preoccupy Macpherson - powes, possessions, and freedom, the central problems in political theory.
Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press, 1972, 1975 printing.
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0195015347
In The Real World of Democracy, C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impacts on one another. Macpherson, who was a professor of political science at the University of Toronto and an Officer of the Order of Canada, suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values.
Author : James Bohman,William Rehg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262522411
The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens.
Author : Michel Rosenfeld,Andrew Arato
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780520917613
In the first essay, Habermas himself succinctly presents the centerpiece of his theory: his proceduralist paradigm of law. The following essays comprise elaborations, criticisms, and further explorations by others of the most salient issues addressed in his theory. The distinguished group of contributors—internationally prominent scholars in the fields of law, philosophy, and social theory—includes many who have been closely identified with Habermas as well as some of his best-known critics. The final essay is a thorough and lengthy reply by Habermas, which not only engages the most important arguments raised in the preceding essays but also further elaborates and refines some of his own key contributions in Between Facts and Norms. This volume will be essential reading for philosophers, legal scholars, and political and social theorists concerned with understanding the work of one of the leading philosophers of our age. These provocative, in-depth debates between Jürgen Habermas and a wide range of his critics relate to the philosopher's contribution to legal and democratic theory in his recently published Between Facts and Norms. Drawing upon his discourse theory, Habermas has elaborated a novel and powerful account of law that purports to bridge the gap between democracy and rights, by conceiving law to be at once self-imposed and binding.
Author : Graeme Campbell Duncan
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521242096
In past decades, democratic theory has been on the defensive, largely as a result of the disappointments of democratic practice. The essays in this volume reflect critically on the theory in the light of those failures and with the corresponding assumption of an indissoluble connection between theory and practice. If theory maintains a monastic impeccability, untouched by the world, it will be sterile and fit merely for arid disputes. Nor can practice stand alone: it varies and changes and is subject to different interpretations. Success will come to it partly through the impact of empirical and prescriptive analysis. The volume is organised in sections, dealing in turn with the changing meanings and evaluations of democracy with classical theories with the revisions and critiques of these theories deriving from existing circumstances and with attempts to extend and to consolidate more adequate and secure theories of democracy. Among the thinkers considered are Mill, de Tocqueville, Marx and Marcuse, while the topics include bureaucracy, feminism, corporatism and social democracy. Together the essays will provide comprehensive review of the past condition and future prospects for democratic theory in practice.
Author : Ricardo Blaug
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780748696130
Put together specially for students of democracy, this invaluable reader gathers key statements from political thinkers, explained and contextualised with editorial commentaries. This new edition includes a new introduction, new sections and 29 new readings published since the first edition. Arranged into four sections "e; Traditional Affirmations of Democracy, Key Concepts, Critiques of Democracy and Contemporary Issues "e; it covers democratic thinking in a remarkably broad way. A general introduction highlights democracy's historical complexity and guides you through the current areas of controversy. The extensive bibliography follows the same structure as the text to help you deepen your study.
Author : Kennan Ferguson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0742523276
William James is known today strictly as a philosopher of pragmatism. Williams James: Politics in the Pluriverse challenges this understanding. Kennan Ferguson argues that James should instead be known as the progenitor of pluralism, one of the most influential and durable American political philosophies of the twentieth century. James contended that engagement with the foreign, the difficult, and the uncomfortable makes us who we are. Rather than mitigating differences or attempting to resolve conflicts, he embraced them, wholeheartedly advocating the opportunity to be transformed. Pluralism, in the mind of the thinker who popularized the term, led to a more complex, more contentious, and far more interesting world. Ferguson traces the historical importance and contemporary possibilities of pluralism's original political insight. In this important work he examines the trajectory of pluralism in the United States and England, the mutual influences of turn-of-the-century American and European philosophical traditions, and the relationship between pluralism and James's active anti-imperialism. James's unexpected political concepts and commitments both illuminate political philosophy of the 20th century and challenge contemporary assumptions about the desirability of unanimity. Pluralism, not unity, should be the goal of both politics and philosophy.
Author : Phillip Birger Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1442630604
"This manuscript seeks to provide a fresh and comprehensive re-interpretation of the ideas of the world-renowned Canadian Political theorist, C.B. Macpherson."--
Author : Stephen R. Munzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521640016
This collection of essays examines central issues of property theory from a variety of perspectives.
Author : Joseph H. Carens
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791414582
C. B. Macpherson was one of the leading political theorists in North America and perhaps the most influential voice on the left for a view of liberal democracy that was simultaneously sympathetic to its aspirations and critical of its achievements. His work provides the contributors to this volume with a common starting point from which to reflect upon the possibilities for critical perspectives on liberal democracy in light of the demise of its Marxist rival. The volume as a whole addresses the following questions: What (if anything) remains valid in previous left critiques of liberal democracy (including Marxist critiques)? And what new critical and constructive alternatives can the left offer to challenge the status quo? The contributors to this volume, from both the Anglo-American and Continental traditions, include Joseph Carens, William Connolly, Virginia Held, John Keane, Ernesto Laclau, William Leiss, Jane Mansbridge, Louise Marcil-Lacoste, Mihailo Markovic, Chantal Mouffe, Nancy Rosenblum, and James Tully.
Author : John Grant
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774836500
The idea of political unity contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members. The price of belonging is an entrenched social stratification within the political unit itself. This book explores how the desire for political unity generates a collective commitment to certain lived fictions – the citizen-state, the market economy, and so forth – that shape our understanding of political legitimacy and responsibility. Canada promises unity through democratic politics, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, a welfare state, and a multicultural approach to cultural relations. John Grant documents the historical failure of these promises, elaborating the radical institutional and intellectual changes needed to overcome our lived fictions.
Author : Frank Cunningham
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0415228794
This descriptive more than prescriptive journey begins with an Anglo-North American overview of the democratic terrain and then zooms in on specific democratic landscapes: liberal, classic pluralism, catallaxy (exchange economics applied to political science), participatory democracy, democratic pragmatism, deliberative democracy, and radical pluralism. Democracy's place within a globalizing world occupies the last chapter. Cunningham (philosophy, U. of Toronto) admits he leans toward democratic pragmatism as espoused in John Dewey's The Public and Its Problems (1927). Suitable for an introductory university course. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Levellers
ISBN : UOM:49015000650557
Author : James L. Hyland
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 071903941X
In this philosophically sophisticated textbook analysis of democracy, J. L. Hyland explores in depth the concept which has come to reign supreme in the pantheon of political ideas. He examines systematically the major topics and problems of democratic theory: the nature of democracy, majoritarianism, democracy and individual freedom, power and the relationship between socioeconomic factors and political equality. In assessing the work of the major democratic theorists, whose accounts frequently conflict, the author seeks to answer the central questions surrounding the subject: What is democracy? What values does it provide? Can democracy fulfil its promise, or is it an unachievable goal to which we merely pay lip-service? Is democracy always justified? What are the counter-democratic features of modern society?