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 VALUESChapter 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. GrahamPART 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-CasanovasChapter VIII. Human Dignity, "Natural Law," and Human Rights
William E. MayChapter IX. Democracy, Minorities and the Plurality of World Views
Habib C. MalikPART IV. CASE STUDY: NIGERIA AND DEMOCRACY
Chapter X. Nigeria and Western Democracy: The Possibility of an African Alternative
Izu Marcel OnyeochaAbubakar S. Mohammed
Chapter XII. Institutional Patterns in Social Transformation
Joseph Abah