Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1 Introduction: Public Freedom Today 1
5. 2 Tocqueville and Civil Society 27
6. 3 Hegel, Tocqueville, and “Individualism” 49
7. 4 Tocqueville and Arendt: Public Freedom, Plurality, and the Preconditions of Liberty 85
8. 5 Maturity, Paternalism, and Democratic Education in J. S. Mill 108
9. 6 The Frankfurt School and the Public Sphere 143
10. 7 Genealogies of Total Domination: Arendt, Adorno, and Auschwitz 210
11. 8 Foucault and the Dystopian Public 255
12. 9 Arendt and Heidegger, Again 302
13. 10 The “Autonomy of the Political” 338
14. Notes 355
15. Index 421