Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval (Wynford Books)

by C B MacPherson

Frank Cunningham (Introduction)

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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...Read more
  • ISBN10 0195447794
  • ISBN13 9780195447798
  • Publish Date 10 July 2014 (first published 25 January 1973)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Language English