Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Quest for a Post-Liberal Public Philosophy -- I. Reviving Civic Virtue -- 1. The Retrieval of Civic Virtue: A Critical Appreciation of Sandel's Democracy's Discontent -- 2. Virtue en Masse -- 3. Reworking Sandel's Republicanism -- II. Toward an American Public Philosophy -- 4. Political Economy and the Politics of Virtue: US Public Philosophy at Century's End -- 5. The Encumbered American Self -- 6. A Public Philosophy for the Professional-Managerial Class -- 7. Notes of a Jewish Episcopalian: Gender as a Language of Class -- Religion as a Dialect of Liberalism -- III. Liberal Republicanism -- 8. A Defense of Minimalist Liberalism -- 9. Michael Sandel and Richard Rorty: Two Models of the Republic -- 10. Liberal Egalitarianism and Civic Republicanism: Friends or Enemies? -- 11. Moral Status and the Status of Morality in Political Liberalism -- 12. Sandel's Liberal Politics -- IV. Living with Difference -- 13. Michael Sandal's America -- 14. Moral Dialogues: A Communitarian Core Element -- 15. Can This Republic Be Saved? -- 16. Civic Republicanism and Civic Pluralism: The Silent Struggle of Michael Sandel -- 17. Living with Difference -- V. Law, Morals, and Private Lives -- 18. Unencumbered Individuals and Embedded Selves: Reasons to Resist Dichotomous Thinking in Family Law -- 19. The Right of Privacy in Sandel's Procedural Republic -- 20. Gay Marriage and Liberal Constitutionalism: Two Mistakes -- VI. Self-Government and Democratic Discontent -- 21. Fusion Republicanism -- 22. Corporate Speech and Civic Virtue -- 23. Federalism as a Cure for Democracy's Discontent? -- VII. A Reply to His Critics -- 24. Reply to Critics -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.