Contents
PART ONE
DEMOCRACY AND PROPERTY:
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND AFTER
. The Maximization of Democracy
1. Democratic Theory: Ontology and Technology 24
I. THE RACE BETWEEN ONTOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY 24
2. WESTERN DEMOCRATIC ONTOLOGY: (I) THE INDI-
VIDUALIST BASE
3. WESTERN DEMOCRATIC ONTOLOGY: (2) THE EGALI-
TARIAN COMPLEMENT
4. TECHNOLOGY, SCARCITY, AND DEMOCRACY
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1. Problems of a Non-Market Theory of Democracy
I. TWO CONCEPTS OF POWER: EXTRACTIVE AND DEVELOP-
MENTAL
2, POWER AND CAPACITIES
3. THE MEASUREMENT OF POWERS
4. IMPEDIMENTS AND THEIR MEASUREMENT
8. THE MAXIMIZATION OF AGGREGATE POWERS
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iv. Revisionist Liberalism
I. THE LESSON OF EMPIRICISM
2. CHAPMAN’S REVISIONIST LIBERALISM
3. RAWLS’S DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
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v. Berlin’s Division of Liberty
I. NEGATIVE LIBERTY
2. POSITIVE LIBERTY
3. AN ALTERNATIVE DIVISION OF LIBERTY
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vi. A Political Theory of Property
I. MODERN PROPERTY A PRODUCT OF CAPITALIST SOCIETY
2. MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHANGES IN THE CONCEPT
OF PROPERTY 131
3. AN IMPENDING CHANGE IN THE CONCEPT OF PROPERTY 133
4. BEYOND PROPERTY AS ACCESS TO THE MEANS OF
LABOUR
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