Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART 1: Conceptual and Practical

1. Liberalism

2. Freedom

3. Culture and Anxiety

4. The Liberal Community

5. Liberal Imperialism

6. State and Private, Red and White

7. The Right to Kill in Cold Blood: Does the Death Penalty Violate Human Rights?

PART 2: Liberty and Security

8. Hobbes’s Political Philosophy

9. Hobbes and Individualism

10. Hobbes, Toleration, and the Inner Life

11. The Nature of Human Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau

12. Locke on Freedom: Some Second Thoughts

PART 3: Liberty and Progress, Mill to Popper

13. Mill’s Essay On Liberty

14. Sense and Sensibility in Mill’s Political Thought

15. Mill in a Liberal Landscape

16. Utilitarianism and Bureaucracy: The Views of J. S. Mill

17. Mill and Rousseau: Utility and Rights

18. Bureaucracy, Democracy, Liberty: Some Unanswered Questions in Mill’s Politics

19. Bertrand Russell’s Politics: 1688 or 1968?

20. Isaiah Berlin: Political Theory and Liberal Culture

21. Popper and Liberalism

PART 4: Liberalism in America

22. Alexis de Tocqueville

23. Staunchly Modern, Nonbourgeois Liberalism

24. Pragmatism, Social Identity, Patriotism, and Self-Criticism

25. Deweyan Pragmatism and American Education

26. John Rawls

PART 5: Work, Ownership, Freedom, and Self-Realization

27. Locke and the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie

28. Hegel on Work, Ownership, and Citizenship

29. Utility and Ownership

30. Maximizing, Moralizing, and Dramatizing

31. The Romantic Theory of Ownership

32. Justice, Exploitation, and the End of Morality

33. Liberty and Socialism

Notes

Index