2. Max Weber and the Politics of the Twentieth Century.

Part I: Critics of Consumerist Capitalism:.

3. Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: The Tyranny of Instrumental Reason.

4. Hannah Arendt: Classical Republicanism and the Modern World.

5. C. B. Macpherson: Possessive Individualism and Liberal Democracy.

Part II: Embattled Liberalism:.

6. Michael Oakeshott: Rationalism and Civil Association.

7. Friedruch Hayek: The Theory of Spontaneous Order.

8. Karl Popper: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society.

9. Isaiah Berlin: Monism and Pluralism.

Part III: Contemporaries:.

10. John Rawls: Liberal Justice.

11. Robert Nozick: The Minimal State.

12. Jurgen Habermas: Discourse Ethics and Democracy.

13. Conclusion: The End of History?.

Index.