Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vi
4. Democracy and Value Pluralism 3
5. What Is the People? A Conceptual History of Civil Society 11
6. From Ancient Virtues to Modern Values: Positive Liberty and the Creative Will 23
7. The Teleology of Modern Time: Negative Liberty and Human Nature 43
8. Splitting the Individual: The Subatomic Values of Liberalism 72
9. Conservatism and the Temporal Order 91
10. Socialism and the Power of Social Unity 117
11. Democracy as a Pattern of Disagreement 142
12. Notes 181
13. Bibliography 191
14. Index 198