CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- I: Behind Individualism -- 1. The Disposition of the Self -- Charles Taylor: The Disengaged Self Versus the Strong Evaluator -- Alasdair Maclntyre: Individualism Versus Narrative Unity -- Michael Sandel: The Unencumbered Self Versus the Socially Situated Self -- The Self as a Two-Track System -- 2. The Theory of Compound Individuality -- Piaget's Cognitive Structures -- The Self-system: Process and Product -- Membership Versus Autonomy -- Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development -- Critiques of Kohlberg -- Liberal and Communitarian Selves Revisited -- II: Beyond Individualism -- 3. Autonomous Selfhood: Individualism Versus Compound Individuality -- Defining Autonomy -- Individualism -- Contextualism and Compound Individuality -- Practicing Contextualism -- 4. Political Participation: Self-development and Self-interest -- Participation as Cultivation of Character -- Mirroring: Habits of the Heart -- Empirical Support for Participation as Self-development -- Outcomes: Generating the Common Good -- Transforming Self-interests -- Rousseau's Self-interest Properly Understood -- Transcending Self-interest -- Why Obey? -- 5. Veneration of Community -- What Is Community? -- Communitarians on Community -- Total Community -- Participation and Liberal Community -- III: Reconstituting the Liberal Self -- 6. Socrates in a Pluralistic Tradition -- Retrospective -- Modern or "New" Liberals -- A New Liberal Psychology -- The Bugbear of Relativism -- Liberal Virtues and the Good Life -- Liberal Politics -- Liberal Lessons from Communitarianism -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.