Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval
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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.
Title:Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:272 pages, 8 X 5.25 X 0.68 in
Shipping dimensions:272 pages, 8 X 5.25 X 0.68 in
Published:January 25, 2012
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9780195447798