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Overview"This important work by political philosopher C.B. Macpherson explores the implications of the ideas about democracy that he offered in such previous books as The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism. Macpherson modifies, extends, and clarifies the concept of a man's power and that of the ""transfer of powers,"" and argues that a liberal-democratic theory can be based on an adequate concept of human powers and capacities without insuperable difficulties. Arguing that the neo-classical liberalisms of Chapman, Rawls, and Berlin fall short of providing an adequate basis for a twentieth-century liberal-democratic theory largely because, in different ways, they fail to see or understate the transfer of powers, Macpherson suggests that the liberal theory of property should be, and can be, revised fundamentally to accommodate new democratic demands. In this manner Macpherson establishes the need for a theory of democracy that gets clear of the disabling central defect of current liberal-democratic theory, while recovering the humanistic values that liberal democracy has always claimed. The result is one of the seminal works of twentieth-century political philosophy. A new Introduction by Frank Cunningham puts the work in a twenty-first-century context." Full Product DetailsAuthor: C.B. Macpherson (Late Professor of Political Science, Late Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto) , Frank Cunningham (Professor, Professor, University of Toronto, Canada)Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.250kg ISBN: 9780195447798ISBN 10: 0195447794 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 10 July 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Wynford Edition PART ONE: DEMOCRACY AND PROPERTY: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND AFTER I. The Maximization of Democracy II. Democratic Theory: Ontology and Technology 1. THE RACE BETWEEN ONTOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY 2. WESTERN DEMOCRATIC ONTOLOGY: (1) THE INDIVIDUALIST BASE 3. WESTERN DEMOCRATIC ONTOLOGY: (2) THE EGALITARIAN COMPLEMENT 4. TECHNOLOGY, SCARCITY, AND DEMOCRACY III. Problems of a Non-Market Theory Of Democracy 1. TWO CONCEPTS OF POWER: EXTRACTIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL 2. POWER AND CAPACITIES 3. THE MEASUREMENT OF POWERS 4. IMPEDIMENTS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT 5. THE MAXIMIZATION OF AGGREGATE POWERS IV. Revisionist Liberalism 1. THE LESSON OF EMPIRICISM 2. CHAPMAN'S REVISIONIST LIBERALISM 3. RAWLS'S DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE V. Berlin's Division of Liberty 1. NEGATIVE LIBERTY 2. POSITIVE LIBERTY 3. AN ALTERNATIVE DIVISION OF LIBERTY VI. A Political Theory of Property 1. MODERN PROPERTY A PRODUCT OF CAPITALIST SOCIETY 2. MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHANGES IN THE CONCEPT OF PROPERTY 3. AN IMPENDING CHANGE IN THE CONCEPT OF PROPERTY 4. BEYOND PROPERTY AS ACCESS TO THE MEANS OF LABOUR PART TWO: RELATED PAPERS ON THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PREDICAMENT VII. Elegant Tombstones: A Note on Friedman's Freedom VIII. Revolution and Ideology in the Late Twentieth Century IX. Post-Liberal-Democracy? X. Market Concepts in Political Theory XI. The Deceptive Task of Political Theory PART THREE: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ROOTS OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PREDICAMENT XII. Servants and Labourers in Seventeenth-Century England 1. SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY USAGE RE-EXAMINED 2. THE GENERAL RULE AND SPECIAL CASES XIII. Natural Rights In Hobbes And Locke 1. INTRODUCTION 2. NATURAL RIGHTS IN HOBBES 3. NATURAL RIGHTS IN LOCKE 4. HOBBES, LOCKE, AND HUMAN RIGHTS 5. THE NEAR FUTURE OF NATURAL RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS XIV. Hobbes's Bourgeois Man IndexReviewsAuthor InformationC.B. Macpherson (1911-1987) was professor of political science at the University of Toronto. Widely regarded as Canada's pre-eminent political theorist of the twentieth century, he was the author of numerous books, including The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy and The Real World of Democracy, and was named to the Order of Canada, the country's highest civilian honour. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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