Foreword to the Kansas Open Books Edition, Greg Weiner
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Prospects for Government in 1989
-"The End of History?"
-Self-Government and Good Government
2. Aristotelian and Confucian Insights
-Relationships and the Political as Sacred
-The Qualifications of Rulers
-Just Government
3. Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
-Higher Law, Holy Books, and Prophets
-Religion, Conscience, and the Purpose of Government
4. The First Era of Modern Thought, ca. 1600-1750
-Bacon, Descartes, and Science in the Modern World"
-Hobbes, Locke, and Modern Politics
-The “Ancients” and a Republican Counterpoint
5. The United States and First Modernity Democracy
-The Rationale of the American Revolution
-Federalists, Antifederalists, and the Philosophy of the Constitution
-The Jeffersonian Synthesis
6. The Second Modernity: From Bentham to Dewey
-Utilitarianism and Individuality in Bentham and J.S. Mill
-Comte, Positivism, and the Era of Science
-Post-Darwin Social Science: Veblen, Sumner, and Dewey
-Traditionalism Response: Thomas Carlyle and Others
-Second Modernity Law and Politics: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Harold Laski
-Social Science and the Democratic Process: Dewey, the Webbs, and Arthur Bentley
7. Liberal Democracy in the Twentieth Century
-Progressivism, the New Deal, and the Liberal Corporate State
-British Socialism, the Great Society, and the Vital Center
-Liberal Democracy as Twentieth-Century Orthodoxy
-Democratic Stagflation and the Thatcher-Reagon Challenge
-The Problematic Liberal Corporate State in 2000
8. Second Modernity Thought in Japan and China
-China and the First Modernity
-Fukuzawa Yukichi, Nishi Amane, and Western Thought in Meiji Japan
-Yan Fu and Social Dawinism in China
-Liang Qichao, New Citizens, and the “Wealth and Power” of the Chinese State
-Democracy in Japan and China
9. An Asian Third Modernity
-Sun Yatsen and “Nationalism, Democracy and Livelihood” in China
-Crosscurrents: Hu Shi, Chiange Kaishek, Liu Shaoqi, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Tiananment
-Modern Democracy in Japan and East Asia
-Japanese and Chinese Reactions to Rabindranath Tagore
-A Third Modernity Rationale for Democracy in East Asia
10. Postmodernism and a Fourth Modernity Democracy
-Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault: “Supermodernism”
-Antifoundationalism and Deconstruction: Lyotard and Derrida
-Oppression, Marginality, and the Politics of Identity
-Postmodern Democracy
11. Comparing Rationales for Democracy
-Transcendental and Empirical Critiques of Baconian Modernity
-Second Modernity Political Evolution in the United States
-The Critique of Second Modernity Liberalism
-The Critique of Postmodernism
12. The Idea of Democracy in the Third Millennium
-Varieties of Contemporary Political Thinking
-The Idea of Human Nature Revisited
-Complex Human Nature and Higher Law
-Democratic Decisionmaking, Leadership, and Citizenship
-A Post-Postmodern Rationale for Democracy
Notes
Index