Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-419) and index
Introduction: public freedom today -- Tocqueville and civil society -- Hegel, Tocqueville, and "individualism" -- Tocqueville and Arendt : public freedom, plurality, and the preconditions of liberty -- Maturity, paternalism, and democratic education in J.S. Mill -- The Frankfurt school and the public sphere -- Genealogies of total domination: Arendt, Adorno, and Auschwitz -- Foucault and the dystopian public -- Arendt and Heidegger, again -- The "autonomy of the political" reconsidered.
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