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1 A LIBERALISM Critical Concepts in Political Theory Edited by G W. Smith Volume I Ideas of Freedom ib London and New York

2 Acknowledgements Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters xiii xvi General Introduction VOLUME I IDEAS OF FREEDOM Three Contemporary Liberalisms 39 1 The principles of a liberal social order 41 F. A. HAYEK 2 Liberalism 57 RONALD DWORKIN 3 Excerpt from Two Faces of Liberalism 81 JOHN GRAY Liberty and Equality 89 4 The liberalism of fear 91 JUDITH N. SHKLAR 5 How limited is liberal government? 107 AMY GUTMANN

3 Liberalism: Political and Economic Liberalism: political and economic 125 RUSSELL HARDIN 7 The Macpherson version 148 DAVID MILLER 8 Markets and morals: self, character and markets 159 G. W. SMITH Liberal Conceptions of Liberty On negative and positive liberty 179 JOHN N. GRAY 10 'Freedom and desire' 202 RICHARD J. ARNESON 11 MacCallum and the two concepts of freedom 222 TOM BALDWIN 12 J. S. Mill, T. H. Green and Isaiah Berlin on the nature of liberty and liberalism 237 RICHARD BELLAMY 13 Negative liberty, liberal and republican 262 PHILIP PETTIT VOLUME II RIGHTS, PROPERTY AND MARKETS Neo-Classical Liberalism: Spontaneous Order and Social Evolution 1 14 The new liberalism 3 NORMAN P. BARRY 15 Liberalism, unintended orders and evolutionism 35 ELLEN FRANKEL PAUL 16 The invisible hand and the cunning of reason 60 EDNA ULLMANN-MARGALIT 17 Hayek's bizarre liberalism: a critique 72 MURRAY FORSYTH VI

4 Rights and Liberty The rule of law in contemporary liberal theory 93 JEREMY WALDRON 19 The nature and value of rights 112 JOEL FEINBERG Commentary by CARL WELLMAN and JAN NARVESON 20 The natural right to equal freedom. "131 HILLEL STEINER 21 Are there any absolute rights? 146 ALAN GEWIRTH 22 Gewirth on absolute rights 162 JERROLD LEVINSON 23 There are absolute rights 165 ALAN GEWIRTH 24 Right-based moralities 172 J. RAZ Rights and Property Justice and property 191 DAVID MILLER 26 Natural property rights 204 ALLAN GIBBARD 27 Life, liberty, and property 212 DAVID KELLEY 28 Self-ownership, autonomy, and property rights 223 ALAN RYAN 29 Property, rights, and freedom 241 GERALD F. GAUS Rights and Welfare Liberalism and libertarianism: narrowing the gap 275 DANIEL SHAPIRO Vll

5 31 A libertarian justification for a welfare state 289 JAMES P. STERBA 32 Libertarian rights and welfare rights 307 RUTH SAMPLE 33 Welfare rights 330 JAMES GRIFFIN The Grounds of Basic Rights ' Rights and autonomy 349 DAVID A. J. RICHARDS 35 Indirect utility and fundamental rights 368 JOHN GRAY 36 Personal projects as the foundation for basic rights 387 LOREN LOMASKY 37 In defense of individualism 407 ERIC MACK VOLUME III JUSTICE AND REASON Justifying Liberalism 1 38 Theoretical foundations of liberalism 3 JEREMY WALDRON 39 How not to defend liberal institutions 25 BRIAN BARRY Neutrality and Justice Moral neutrality and primary goods 43 ADINA SCHWARTZ 41 Rawls on justice 57 THOMAS NAGEL 42 Liberal individualism and liberal neutrality 70 WILL KYMLICKA Vlll

6 43 Justice and rights 93 RONALD DWORKIN 44 The procedural republic and the unencumbered self 123 MICHAEL J. SANDEL Liberal Perfectionism Defending liberalism WILLIAM GALSTON 46 Liberal neutrality and the value of autonomy 155 GEORGE SHER 47 Liberalism, autonomy, and the politics of neutral concern 178 JOSEPH RAZ 48 Joseph Raz and the contextual argument for liberal perfectionism 212 DAVID MCCABE Political Liberalism Justice as fairness: political not metaphysical 245 JOHN RAWLS 50 Rawls' Kantian ideal and the viability of modern liberalism 270 GERALD DOPPELT 51 Moral conflict and political legitimacy 306 THOMAS NAGEL 52 Political liberalism 327 CHARLES LARMORE The Critique of Political Liberalism Liberalism, liberty, and neutrality 349 PETER DE MARNEFFE 54 Pluralism and social unity 367 WILLIAM A. GALSTON 55 Liberalism, autonomy, and moral conflict 382 STEPHEN GARDBAUM IX

7 56 Political liberalism and public reason: a critical notice of John Rawls, Political Liberalism 419 ONORA O'NEILL 57 Political constructivism in Rawls's Political Liberalism 433 GEORGE KLOSKO 58 Review of Political Liberalism 458 MICHAEL J. SANDEL 59 Political Liberalism, justice, and gender 487 SUSAN MOLLER OKIN VOLUME IV THE LIMITS OF LIBERALISM Liberalism and Pluralism 1 60 Agonistic liberalism 3 JOHN GRAY 61 From post-liberalism to pluralism 27 JOHN GRAY 62 From value pluralism to liberalism 40 GEORGE CROWDER 63 Value-pluralism in contemporary liberalism 54 GLEN NEWEY 64 Liberalism and the challenge of pluralism 82 RICHARD BELLAMY 65 Reasonable pluralism and the domain of the political: how the weaknesses of John Rawls's political liberalism can be overcome by a justificatory liberalism 97 GERALD F. GAUS Liberalism, Multiculturalism and Nationalism Are there any cultural rights? 125 CHANDRAN KUKATHAS 67 The rights of minority cultures: reply to Kukathas 157 WILL KYMLICKA

8 68 Cultural rights again: a rejoinder to Kymlicka 164 CHANDRAN KUKATHAS 69 Imposing liberal principles 171 ANDREW MASON 70 Theories of secession 188 ALLEN BUCHANAN 71 Liberal nationalism and secession 213 KAI NIELSEN Deliberative Democracy and Liberalism On legitimacy and political deliberation 247 BERNARD MANIN 73 Why deliberative democracy is different 274 AMY GUTMANN AND DENNIS THOMPSON 74 Political liberalism, deliberative democracy, and the public sphere 294 EVAN CHARNEY 75 Complexity and deliberative democracy 323 JOSEPH FEMIA Liberalism, Equality and Resources How liberal is liberal equality? A comment on Ronald Dworkin's Tanner Lecture 363 EMILY SHERWIN 77 Where the action is: on the site of distributive justice 387 G. A. COHEN 78 Liberalism, equality, and fraternity in Cohen's critique of Rawls 411 DAVID ESTLUND The Triumph of Liberalism The liberal predicament: historical and logical 429 RICHARD BELLAMY AND JOHN ZVESPER XI

9 80 Liberty's hollow triumph 438 JOHN SKORUPSKl Index 458 XII

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