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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The liberal democratic paradigm | |
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| Method | |
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| Moral theory and political philosophy | |
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| Structure of the book | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Notes on further reading | |
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| Basic Issues Within the Liberal Paradigm | |
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| The Problem of Political Authority | |
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| The social contract tradition | |
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| Hobbes's social contract: Mechanism, egoism, and rationality | |
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| Locke: Reason, morality, and freedom | |
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| Lessons from Rousseau and Kant | |
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| From consent to legitimacy | |
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| Case to consider | |
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| Notes on further reading | |
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| Distributive Justice | |
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| Distributive justice and equality | |
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| Libertarianism | |
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| Rawlsian distributive justice | |
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| Varieties of egalitarianism | |
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| From equality to the welfare state | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Toleration, Pluralism, and the Foundations of Liberalism | |
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| The canons of liberalism | |
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| The perfectionist challenge | |
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| Utilitarian liberalism: Perfectionism in disguise? | |
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| The response of political liberalism | |
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| Liberalism, public discourse, and democracy | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Case to consider | |
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| Notes on further reading | |
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| Critique of the Liberal Paradigm: Challenges and Departures | |
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| Conservatism, Communitarianism, and the Social Conception of the Self | |
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| Conservatism | |
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| Communitarianism | |
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| Liberalism, freedom, and culture | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Case to consider | |
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| Notes on further reading | |
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| Race, Gender, and the Politics of Identity | |
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| Ideal theory and ongoing injustice | |
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| Critical race theory | |
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| Gender, sex, and the challenge of feminism | |
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| Identity, injustice, and democracy | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Case to consider | |
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| Notes on further reading | |
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| Radical Critique: Marxism and Post-Modernism | |
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| The legacy of Marx and Marxism | |
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| Post-modern departures | |
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| Epilogue: The hope of liberalism | |
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| Chapter summary | |
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| Case to consider | |
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| Notes on further reading | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |