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| Introduction: Hard-Hearted Liberalism | |
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| The Intellectual Options Today | |
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| Liberals, Civil Libertarians, and Liberalism | |
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| The Free Speech Story | |
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| Self-Abstraction and Stoicism | |
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| The Method of Perversity | |
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| Saint Paul's Shudder | |
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| The Puzzle of Paul | |
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| The Case of Meat at Corinth | |
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| The Privilege of the Other | |
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| In Praise of Impersonality | |
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| Hosting Dangerous Discourse | |
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| Stoic, Rhetorician, Jew | |
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| "Evil Be Thou My Good": Milton and Abyss-Redemption | |
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| Areopagitica, a Misplaced Classic | |
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| Provoking Objects | |
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| Scouting into the Regions of Sin | |
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| Dramatis Personae | |
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| The Morality of Transgression | |
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| Publicity and Pain | |
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| The Public Realm as Sublimation | |
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| Locke's Project of Self-Discipline | |
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| Adam Smith and the Fortunate Impossibility of Sympathy | |
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| Mill and the Historical Recession of Pain | |
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| Stoic Ear, Romantic Voice | |
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| Publicity and Pain | |
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| Homeopathic Machismo in Free Speech Theory | |
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| The Traumatophilic First Amendment | |
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| Holmes and Hardness | |
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| Brandeis and Noxious Doctrine | |
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| Skokie Subjectivity | |
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| Hardball Public Space and the Suspended Soul | |
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| Impersonality, or Openness to Strangeness | |
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| Social Science as Public Communication | |
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| Positivism as Civic Discipline | |
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| The Arts of Chaste Discourse | |
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| Democracy and Numbers | |
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| Objectivity and Self-Mortification | |
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| Medical Composure | |
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| Ways to Rehearse Death | |
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| "Watch, Therefore": Suffering and the Informed Citizen | |
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| Catharsis | |
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| Compassion | |
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| Courage | |
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| Pity and Its Critics | |
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| News and the Everlasting Now | |
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| "Meekness as a Dangerous Activity": Witnessing as Participation | |
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| Witnessing with the Body | |
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| Witnessing from Captivity | |
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| Persons as Objects | |
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| Martin Luther King's Principled Passivity | |
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| Transcendental Buffoonery | |
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| Democracy and Imperfection | |
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| Conclusion: Responsibility to Things That Are Not | |
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| The Sustainability of Free Expression | |
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| The Wages of Stoicism | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |