Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Political Theory, Public Philosophy, and Pluralism
Introduction
Leo Strauss, What Is Political Philosophy?
Judith Shklar, Political Ideology
Theodore J. Lowi, America's Old and New Public Philosophy
Avigail Eisenberg, Reconstructing Political Pluralism
William E. Connolly, Pluralism: A Prelude
Part I: Ideological Voices
2. Nineteenth-Century Ideologies
Introduction
John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government
National Assembly of France, The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Emma Goldman, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For
3. Twentieth-Century Ideologies
Introduction
Vladimir I. Lenin, State and Revolution
Giovanni Gentile, The Philosophic Basis of Fascism
Paul Starr, Why Liberalism Works
John Kekes, A Case for Conservatism
4. Newer Quasi-Ideologies
Introduction
Michael J. Sandel, America's Search for a New Public Philosophy
Richard John Neuhaus, Public Religion and Public Reason
Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender, and the Family
Arne Naess, The Environmental Crisis and the Deep Ecological Movement
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Globalization and Democracy
Part II: Philosophical Assumptions
5. Ontological Conceptions
Introduction
Plato, The Theory of Forms
Walter Ullman, Ascending and Descending Theses of Government
Ken Wilber, The Great Chain of Being
Jean Jacques Rousseau, On the General Will
Friedrich Engels, Marx's Materialist Conception of History
Charles Darwin, Natural Selection
T. H. Huxley, Evolution and Ethics
Judith Butler, Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism'
6. Conceptions of Human Nature
Introduction
Herbert Deane, St. Augustine's Conception of Fallen Man
Thomas Hobbes, The Natural Condition of Mankind
C. B. Macpherson, The Early Liberal Model of Man
Karl Marx, Estranged Labor
Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid
John Rawls, The Rationality and Motivations of Parties in the Original Position
Michael Sandel, The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self
Bhikhu Parekh, Conceptualizing Human Beings
7. Images of Society
Introduction
Aristotle, The Natural Origins of Political Associations
Thomas Hobbes, The Contractual Origins of Society
Edmund Burke, The Great Primaeval Contract of Eternal Society
Paul Schumaker, Social Cleavages and Complex Equality
8. Epistemological Orientations
Introduction
Benjamin Barber, The Epistemological Frame: Cartesian Politics
Jeremy Bentham, Of the Principle of Utility
Alasdair MacIntyre, Narratives of the Good Life Guided by Living Traditions
Richard Rorty, America's Civic Religion: A Hopeful Pragmatism
Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice
John Rawls, Political Constructivism
Part III: Political Principles
9. On Community
Introduction
James Madison, The Federalist No. 10
Rogers M. Smith, Toward a Theory of Civic Identities
David Held, Towards a Global Covenant: Global Social Democracy
Kirkpatrick Sale, Human-Scale Democracy
Robert Dahl, The Chinese Boxes
10. On Citizenship
Introduction
Michael Walzer, The Distribution of Membership
Joseph H. Carens, Aliens and Citizens: The Case For Open Borders
T. H. Marshall, The Development of Citizen Rights
Iris Marion Young, Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship
Amitai Etzioni et al., The Responsive Communitarian Platform: Rights and Responsibilities
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Threat Posed by Corrupt Citizens
11. On Structure
Introduction
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Adam Smith, The Principles and Virtues of Free Markets
Lawrence E. Harrison, Progress and Poverty Without Marx
Robert D. Putnam, The Strange Disappearance of Civic America
Anthony Giddens, The Third Way and Government
Imam Khomeini, Islamic Government
John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration
12. On Rulers
Introduction
Robert Dahl, Guardianship
Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol
Alexis de Tocqueville, Unlimited Power of the Majority in the United States and Its Consequences
Joseph Schumpeter, A Realistic Alternative to the Classical Doctrine of Democracy
Benjamin Barber, Strong Democracy: Politics in the Participatory Mode
Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, What Deliberative Democracy Means
William Riker, Liberalism, Populism, and the Theory of Public Choice
13. On Authority
Introduction
Robert Paul Wolff, The Conflict Between Authority and Autonomy
Milton Friedman, The Role of Government in a Free Society
Garrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the Commons
Benjamin I. Page and James R. Simmons, What Should Government Do?
William Galston, Liberalism and Public Morality
14. On Justice
Introduction
APSA Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy, American Democracy in an Age of Rising Inequality
John Rawls, A Kantian Conception of Equality
Irving Kristol, A Capitalist Conception of Justice
Robert Nozick, The Entitlement Theory
15. On Change
Introduction
Michael Oakeshott, On Being Conservative
Richard Rorty, Movements and Campaigns
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Abd Al-Salam Faraj, The Neglected Duty
Albert Camus, Rebellion Beyond Nihilism
