CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY CHANGE

SERIES VII, SEMINAR: CULTURE AND VALUES, VOLUME 15

General Editor

George F. McLean

 

DEMOCRACY, CULTURE, AND VALUES

Volume II

Democracy and Values in Global Times

with Nigeria as a Case Study

Edited by

GEORGE F. McLEAN

ROBERT MAGLIOLA

JOSEPH ABAH

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. RE-THINKING VALUES

Chapter I. Culture and Democracy

                 George F. McLean

Chapter II. Re-thinking Nationalism and Democracy in the Light of Post-Communist Experience

                  Ghia Nodia

Chapter III. The Mythomania of Contemporary Absolutism

                   Penka Marinova Vartcheva

Chapter IV. Why Democracy Can’t Be Taught

                    Richard A. Graham

PART II. BUILDING DEMOCRATIC STRUCTURES

Chapter V. Freedom and Choice: Between Heidegger’s "das Nichts" and Jaspers’s "das Umgreifende"

                 Dragos Popa

Chapter VI. New Dimensions of Democracy

                 Hristo Smolenov

PART III. ACCOMMODATING PLURALISM

Chapter VII. Biblical Ethics in Alfonso X’s General Estoria: A Historicist Critique of Cultural Authority

                   Roberto J. Gonzalez-Casanovas

Chapter VIII. Human Dignity, "Natural Law," and Human Rights

                   William E. May

Chapter IX. Democracy, Minorities and the Plurality of World Views

                  Habib C. Malik

PART IV. CASE STUDY: NIGERIA AND DEMOCRACY

Chapter X. Nigeria and Western Democracy: The Possibility of an African Alternative

                  Izu Marcel Onyeocha

Chapter XI. The Role of the Civil Society in the Establishment and Maintenance of a Democratic Society in Nigeria

                  Abubakar S. Mohammed

Chapter XII. Institutional Patterns in Social Transformation

                  Joseph Abah



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