Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Renewed Critique of Liberal Capitalism

PART ONE: THE EMERGENCE OF LIBERAL SOCIAL MORALITY

1 The Social Context of Early Liberal Theory

2 The Evolution of Rights-Based Social Morality: Hobbes to James Mill

3 Case Study in Anti-Democratic Liberalism: The Property Defence League

4 Liberal Rights-Based Social Morality and Its Social Presuppositions

PART TWO: THE EMERGENCE OF NEEDS-BASED SOCIAL MORALITY

5 Capitalism as Moral Revolution

6 Gerrard Winstanley: Freedom and the Needs of Life

7 The Dialectic of Rights and Needs in the French Revolution

8 Needs and Social Struggles in England and France in the Nineteenth Century

9 Socialism and Democratic Need Satisfaction

PART THREE: THE EVOLUTION OF CLASSICAL LIBERAL SOCIAL MORALITY

10 Social Rights

11 John Rawls: Self-Determination – Moral or Material?

12 Habermas’s One-Dimensional Democracy

13 Chantal Mouffe: The Self-Contradictions of “Political” Democracy

PART FOUR: A PROJECT FOR SOCIAL DEMOCRATIZATION

14 The Reaction Against Social Democratization

15 Needs-Based Social Morality, the Life Ground of Value, and the Good for Human Beings

16 Negotiated Coordination and the Project for a Democratic Society

Bibiliography

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