Liberalism and the Moral Life

Nancy L. Rosenblum is the Senator Joseph S. Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government emerita at Harvard University and the author of numerous books, including Good Neighbors: The Democracy of Everyday Life in America and (with Russell Muirhead) Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos.

• Part 1 Varieties of liberalism today: the liberalism of fear, Judith N. Shklar; humanist liberalism, Susan Moller Okin; liberal democracy and the costs of consent, Benjamin R. Barber. Part 2 Education and the moral life: undemocratic education, Amy Gutmann; civic education in the liberal state, William Galston. Part 3 Moral conflict: class conflict and constitutionalism in J. S. Mill's thought, Richard Ashcraft; making sense of moral conflict, Steven Lukes; liberal dialogue versus a critical theory of discursive legitimation, Seyla Benhabib. Part 4 Repairing individualists and communitarian failings: cross-purposes - the liberal-communitarian debate, Charles Taylor; democratic individuality and the meaning of rights, George Kateb; pluralism and self-defense, Nancy L. Rosenblum; the permanent structure of antiliberal thought, Stephen Holmes.

An important book and timely collection that will be accessible to a wide audience.