Democratic Individuality

by Alan Gilbert

Book Overview

This ambitious and sweeping book presents a powerful argument against moral relativism and in favor of the objectivity of a theory of democratic individuality. Unlike much recent work in this field, the book does not simply adumbrate such a view. Rather, it develops the parallels between various versions of scientific and moral realism, and then reinterprets the history and internal logic of democratic theory, maintaining, for example, that the abolition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521387094
• ISBN13: 9780521387095
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 9.2"