Acknowledgments=ⅶ
Introduction=1
1 Prospects for Government in 1989=7
"The End of History?"=7
Self-Government and Good Government=10
2 Aristotelian and Confucian Insights=12
Relationships and the politica as Sacred=12
The Qualifications of Rulers=17
Just Government and the Good Society=19
3 Tensions of Citizenship:Judaism, Christianity, and Islam=23
Higher Law, Holy Books, and Prophets=23
Religion, Conscience, and the Purpose of Government=25
4 The First Era of Modern Thought, CA,1600-1750=30
Bacon, Descartes, and "Science in the Modern World"=31
Hobbes, Licke, and Modern Politics=33
The "Ancients" and a Republican Counterpoint=35
5 The United States and First Modernity Democracy=40
The Rationale of the American Revolution=41
Federalists, Antifederalists, and the Philosophy of the Constitution=44
The Jeffersonian Synthesis=48
6 The SecondModernity:From Bentham to Dewey=55
Utilitarianism and Individuality in Bentham and J.S.Mill=57
Comte, Positivesm, and the Era of Science=60
Post-Darwin Social Science:Veblem, Sumner,and Dewey=64
Traditionalist Response:Thomas Carlyle and Others=70
Second Modernity Law and Pliticss:Oliver Wendell holmes and Harold Laski=77
Social Science and the Democratic Process:Dewey, the Webbs, and Arthur Bentley=80
7 Liberal Democracy in the Twentieth Century=90
Progressivism, the New Dealm and the Liberal Corporate State=90
British Socialism the Great Society and the Vital Center=94
Liberal Democracy as Twentieth-Century Orthodoxy=97
Democratic Stagflation adn the Thatcher-Reagan Challenge=103
The Problematic Liberal Corporate State in 2000=106
8 Second Modernity Thought in Japan and China=111
China and the First Modernity=111
Fukuzawa Yukichi, Nishi Amane, and Western Thought in Meiji Japan=114
Yan Fu and Social Darwinism in China=127
Liang Qichao, New Citizens, and the "Wealth and pser" of the Chinese State=138
Democracy in Japan and China=143
9 An Asian Third Modernity=149
Sun Yatsen and "Nationalism, Democracy, and Livelihood" i China=149
Crosscurrents:Hu Shi, Chiang Kaisheck, Liu Shaoqi, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Tiananmen=151
modern Democracy in Japan and East Asia=162
Japanese and Chinese Reactions to Rabindranath Tagore=167
A Third Modernity Rationale for Democracy in East Asia=174
10 Postmodernism and a Fourth Modernity Democracy=182
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault:"Supermodernism=182
Antifoundationalism and Deconstruction:Lyotard and Derrida=191
Oppression, Marginality and the Politics fo Identity=196
Postmodern Democracy=202
11 Comparing Rationales for Democracy=210
Transcendental and Empirical Critiques of Baconiam Modernity=210
Second Modernity Political Evolution in the United States=213
The Critique of Second Modernity Liberalism=216
The Critique of Postmodernism=222
12 The Idea of Democracy in the Third Millennium=231
Varieties of Contemporary Political Thinking=231
The Idea of Human Nature Revisited=234
Complex Human Nature and Higher Law=244
Democratic Decisionmaking, Leadership, and Citizenship=248
A Post-Postmodern Rationale for Democracy=259
Notes=265
Introduction=1
1 Prospects for Government in 1989=7
"The End of History?"=7
Self-Government and Good Government=10
2 Aristotelian and Confucian Insights=12
Relationships and the politica as Sacred=12
The Qualifications of Rulers=17
Just Government and the Good Society=19
3 Tensions of Citizenship:Judaism, Christianity, and Islam=23
Higher Law, Holy Books, and Prophets=23
Religion, Conscience, and the Purpose of Government=25
4 The First Era of Modern Thought, CA,1600-1750=30
Bacon, Descartes, and "Science in the Modern World"=31
Hobbes, Licke, and Modern Politics=33
The "Ancients" and a Republican Counterpoint=35
5 The United States and First Modernity Democracy=40
The Rationale of the American Revolution=41
Federalists, Antifederalists, and the Philosophy of the Constitution=44
The Jeffersonian Synthesis=48
6 The SecondModernity:From Bentham to Dewey=55
Utilitarianism and Individuality in Bentham and J.S.Mill=57
Comte, Positivesm, and the Era of Science=60
Post-Darwin Social Science:Veblem, Sumner,and Dewey=64
Traditionalist Response:Thomas Carlyle and Others=70
Second Modernity Law and Pliticss:Oliver Wendell holmes and Harold Laski=77
Social Science and the Democratic Process:Dewey, the Webbs, and Arthur Bentley=80
7 Liberal Democracy in the Twentieth Century=90
Progressivism, the New Dealm and the Liberal Corporate State=90
British Socialism the Great Society and the Vital Center=94
Liberal Democracy as Twentieth-Century Orthodoxy=97
Democratic Stagflation adn the Thatcher-Reagan Challenge=103
The Problematic Liberal Corporate State in 2000=106
8 Second Modernity Thought in Japan and China=111
China and the First Modernity=111
Fukuzawa Yukichi, Nishi Amane, and Western Thought in Meiji Japan=114
Yan Fu and Social Darwinism in China=127
Liang Qichao, New Citizens, and the "Wealth and pser" of the Chinese State=138
Democracy in Japan and China=143
9 An Asian Third Modernity=149
Sun Yatsen and "Nationalism, Democracy, and Livelihood" i China=149
Crosscurrents:Hu Shi, Chiang Kaisheck, Liu Shaoqi, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and Tiananmen=151
modern Democracy in Japan and East Asia=162
Japanese and Chinese Reactions to Rabindranath Tagore=167
A Third Modernity Rationale for Democracy in East Asia=174
10 Postmodernism and a Fourth Modernity Democracy=182
Nietzsche, Heidegger, Foucault:"Supermodernism=182
Antifoundationalism and Deconstruction:Lyotard and Derrida=191
Oppression, Marginality and the Politics fo Identity=196
Postmodern Democracy=202
11 Comparing Rationales for Democracy=210
Transcendental and Empirical Critiques of Baconiam Modernity=210
Second Modernity Political Evolution in the United States=213
The Critique of Second Modernity Liberalism=216
The Critique of Postmodernism=222
12 The Idea of Democracy in the Third Millennium=231
Varieties of Contemporary Political Thinking=231
The Idea of Human Nature Revisited=234
Complex Human Nature and Higher Law=244
Democratic Decisionmaking, Leadership, and Citizenship=248
A Post-Postmodern Rationale for Democracy=259
Notes=265