Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Democracy: A History of Ideas -- 1 Democracy and Value Pluralism -- 2 What Is the People? A Conceptual History of Civil Society -- 3 From Ancient Virtues to Modern Values: Positive Liberty and the Creative Will -- 4 The Teleology of Modern Time: Negative Liberty and Human Nature -- 5 Splitting the Individual: The Subatomic Values of Liberalism -- 6 Conservatism and the Temporal Order -- 7 Socialism and the Power of Social Unity -- 8 Democracy as a Pattern of Disagreement -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.