Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. INTRODUCTION. The Legitimacy of the Liberal Age 1
5. PART ONE. Les Adieux
6. CHAPTER 1. Levi -Strauss 37
7. CHAPTER 2. Foucault 54
8. CHAPTER 3. Bourdieu 63
9. PART TWO. Reconsiderations
10. CHAPTER 4. Kant and Fichte 73
11. CHAPTER 5. Constant 82
12. CHAPTER 6. Tocqueville 91
13. PART THREE. What Is Modernity?
14. CHAPTER 7. Primitive Religion and the Origins of the State 115
15. CHAPTER 8. The Modern State 123
16. CHAPTER 9. Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary 134
17. PART FOUR. What Are Human Rights?
18. CHAPTER 10. How to Think about Rights 147
19. CHAPTER 11. Rights and Natural Law 155
20. CHAPTER 12. Rights and Modern Law 164
21. PART FIVE. The Liberal Political Order
22. CHAPTER 13. The Contest for Command 177
23. CHAPTER 14. On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation 186
24. CHAPTER 15. Modernization and Consensus 201
25. PART SIX. The New Individualism
26. CHAPTER 16. May ’68, or the Rise of Transpolitical Individualism 211
27. CHAPTER 17. The End of Alienation? 220
28. CHAPTER 18. The Rebirth of Voluntary Servitude 226
29. Notes on the Authors 233
30. Selected Bibliography 235