Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Conceptual and Practical
6. 1. Liberalism 21
7. 2. Freedom 45
8. 3. Culture and Anxiety 63
9. 4. The Liberal Community 91
10. 5. Liberal Imperialism 107
11. 6. State and Private, Red and White 123
12. 7. The Right to Kill in Cold Blood: Does the Death Penalty Violate Human Rights? 139
13. Part 2: Liberty and Security
14. 8. Hobbes’s Political Philosophy 159
15. 9. Hobbes and Individualism 186
16. 10. Hobbes, Toleration, and the Inner Life 204
17. 11. The Nature of Human Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau 220
18. 12. Locke on Freedom: Some Second Thoughts 233
19. Part 3: Liberty and Progress, Mill to Popper
20. 13. Mill’s Essay On Liberty 257
21. 14. Sense and Sensibility in Mill’s Political Thought 279
22. 15. Mill in a Liberal Landscape 292
23. 16. Utilitarianism and Bureaucracy: The Views of J. S. Mill 326
24. 17. Mill and Rousseau: Utility and Rights 346
25. 18. Bureaucracy, Democracy, Liberty: Some Unanswered Questions in Mill’s Politics 364
26. 19. Bertrand Russell’s Politics: 1688 or 1968? 381
27. 20. Isaiah Berlin: Political Theory and Liberal Culture 395
28. 21. Popper and Liberalism 413
29. Part 4: Liberalism in America
30. 22. Alexis de Tocqueville 429
31. 23. Staunchly Modern, Nonbourgeois Liberalism 456
32. 24. Pragmatism, Social Identity, Patriotism, and Self-Criticism 473
33. 25. Deweyan Pragmatism and American Education 489
34. 26. John Rawls 505
35. Part 5: Work, Ownership, Freedom, and Self-Realization
36. 27. Locke and the Dictatorship of the Bourgeoisie 523
37. 28. Hegel on Work, Ownership, and Citizenship 538
38. 29. Utility and Ownership 556
39. 30. Maximizing, Moralizing, and Dramatizing 573
40. 31. The Romantic Theory of Ownership 586
41. 32. Justice, Exploitation, and the End of Morality 600
42. 33. Liberty and Socialism 617
43. Notes 631
44. Index 665