Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART I INTRODUCTION -- 1 PLURALISM IN ETHICS AND POLITICS -- LIBERALISM -- PLURALISM AND MONISM -- COMPREHENSIVE AND FREESTANDING POLITICAL THEORIES -- FOUR TYPES OF POLITICAL THEORY -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF PLURALISM -- PLURALISM AND CIVIC UNITY -- THE PLAN OF THIS BOOK -- PART II FROM VALUE PLURALISM TO LIBERAL PLURALIST THEORY -- 2 TWO CONCEPTS OF LIBERALISM -- THE CIVIC AND EXPRESSIVE DIMENSIONS OF LIBERALISM -- CIVIC AND EXPRESSIVE DIMENSIONS OF AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM -- DIVERSITY RATHER THAN AUTONOMY -- HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE DISPUTE -- TAKING DIVERSITY SERIOUSLY -- 3 THREE SOURCES OF LIBERAL PLURALISM -- THE RESOURCES OF LIBERAL THEORY -- Expressive Liberty -- Value Pluralism -- Political Pluralism -- HOW THE SOURCES OF LIBERAL THEORY FIT TOGETHER -- 4 LIBERAL PLURALIST THEORY -- THE REJECTION OF COMPREHENSIVE THEORY AS A BASIS FOR POLITICAL THEORY -- WHY WE SHOULD QUESTION THE REJECTION OF COMPREHENSIVE THEORY -- Public Reason among Citizens -- The Conduct of Political Philosophy -- REASONABLE DISAGREEMENT AND VALUE PLURALISM -- 5 FROM VALUE PLURALISM TO LIBERAL PLURALIST POLITICS -- THE POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF VALUE PLURALISM: JOHN GRAY VERSUS ISAIAH BERLIN -- LIBERAL UNIVERSALISM AND POLITICAL PRUDENCE -- 6 VALUE PLURALISM AND POLITICAL COMMUNITY -- THE MINIMUM CONDITIONS OF PUBLIC ORDER -- CONSTITUTIONALISM -- ETHICAL PRESUMPTION -- PART III THE PRACTICE OF LIBERAL PLURALISM -- 7 DEMOCRACY AND VALUE PLURALISM -- INTRODUCTION -- THE LIMITS OF POLITICS -- Truth -- Liberty -- ALTERNATIVES TO DEMOCRACY WITHIN THE POLITICAL SPHERE -- Juries -- Expertise -- Paternalism -- The Common Good -- PLURALIST CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY -- Pluralist Constitutionalism -- Pluralism and Democratic Deliberation -- CONCLUSION -- 8 PARENTS, GOVERNMENT, AND CHILDREN.

INTRODUCTION -- EDUCATION IN U.S. HISTORY -- FROM HISTORY TO THEORY -- EXPRESSIVE LIBERTY AND PARENTAL INTERESTS -- PARENTAL AUTHORITY, EXPRESSIVE LIBERTY, AND PUBLIC EDUCATION -- 9 FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION AND EXPRESSIVE LIBERTY -- THE LIBERAL PLURALIST STATE AND FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION -- EXPRESSIVE LIBERTY AND CIVIC UNITY IN THE LIBERAL PLURALIST STATE -- PLURALIST LIBERTY AND THE RIGHT OF EXIT -- 10 LIBERAL PLURALISM AND CIVIC GOODS -- REASONABLE DOUBTS ABOUT LIBERAL PLURALISM -- WHY LIBERAL PLURALISM CAN PURSUE CIVIC GOODS -- Liberal Pluralism as a Regime -- Liberal Pluralist Citizenship -- Justice in the Liberal Pluralist State -- WHY PLURALISM IS UNAVOIDABLE -- INDEX.