Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Toward a Renewed Critique of Liberal Capitalism xi
5. The Emergence of Liberal Social Morality
6. The Social Context of Early Liberal Theory 3
7. The Evolution of Rights-Based Social Morality: Hobbes to James Mill 10
8. Case Study in Anti-Democratic Liberalism: The Property Defence League 38
9. Liberal Rights-Based Social Morality and Its Social Presuppositions 44
10. The Emergence of Needs-Based Social Morality
11. Capitalism as Moral Revolution 53
12. Gerrard Winstanley: Freedom and the Needs of Life 59
13. The Dialectic of Rights and Needs in the French Revolution 69
14. Needs and Social Struggles in England and France in the Nineteenth Century 91
15. Socialism and Democratic Need Satisfaction 111
16. The Evolution of Classical Liberal Social Morality
17. Social Rights 133
18. John Rawls: Self-Determination – Moral or Material? 141
19. Habermas’s One-Dimensional Democracy 159
20. Chantal Mouffe: The Self-Contradictions of “Political” Democracy 185
21. A Project for Social Democratization
22. The Reaction Against Social Democratization 201
23. Needs-Based Social Morality, the Life Ground of Value, and the Good for Human Beings 214
24. Negotiated Coordination and the Project for a Democratic Society 227
25. Bibiliography 249
26. Index 259