Stephen Bronner is Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He serves on the editorial boards of the journals New Politics and New Political Science. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Moments of Decision (Routledge, 1992), which won APSA's Michael Harrington Book Award.
Part I: Toward a Theory of Democracy 1. The LiberalIdea: Jürgen Habermas
The Public Sphere; BenedettoCroce
Liberty and Revolution; John Rawls
Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical 2.Communitarianism and Culture: John Dewey
The Search for the Great Community ; Hannah Arendt
The Public and the Private Realm; Michael Sandel
The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self; Robert Putnam
Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital 3. TheConservative Disposition: Michael Oakeshott
On Being Conservative; Carl Schmitt
Defining the Political; LeoStrauss
What is Liberal Education?; NormanPodhoretz
The Adversary Culture and the New Class 4.Anarchism and Freedom: Augustin Souchy
A Life for Freedom; Martin Buber
In the Midst of Crisis; RobertPaul Wolff
Beyond the Legitimate State Part II:Grand Narratives 5. Nationalism and Beyond: MauriceBarrés
Scenes and Doctrines of Nationalism; TheodorHerzl
The Jewish Question; Frantz Fanon
Concerning Violence; Martha C. Nussbaum
Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism 6. Democratic Socialism:EduardBernstein
The Socialist Conception of Democracy; RosaLuxemburg
Democracy and Dictatorship; CarloRosselli
Liberal Socialism; Henry M. Pachter
Aphorisms on Socialism 7. Communism and Revolution: V.I.Lenin
What is to Be Done?; Antonio Gramsci
The Revolution Against Capital; Josef Stalin
The Dictatorship of the Proletariat; Che Guevara
Building New Men 8. The Fascist World View:BenitoMussolini
Fundamental Ideas; Jose Antonio Primo deRivera
What the Falange Wants; Adolf Hitler
Nation and Race; Andrew Macdonald
Excerpts from The Turner Diaries 9. Religion and Politics: Max Weber
On the Tension Between Religion and Politics; Mohandas K. Gandhi
The Doctrine of the Sword; Ayatollah Khomeini
Islam and Revolution Part III: Radical Voices 10. CriticalTheory: Max Horkheimer
The State of Contemporary Social Philosophy and the Tasks of an Institute for Social Research; Frederick Pollock
State Capitalism: Its Possibilities and Limitations; Theodor W. Adorno
The Culture Industry Reconsidered; Herbert Marcuse
Liberation from the Affluent Society 11.The African
American Heritage:W.E.B. Dubois
Of Our Spiritual Strivings; Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail; Malcolm X
The Ballot or the Bullet; Cornel West
Nihilism in Black America 12. GenderedExperiences: Simone de Beauvoir
Introduction to The Second Sex; Carole Pateman
The End of the Story?; Catharine A. MacKinnon
Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination; Audre Lorde
The Master's Tools 13.Postmodern Perspectives: Jean
François Lyotard
The Postmodern; Judith Butler
Contingent Foundations; EdwardW. Said
Orientalism Part IV: Charting theFuture 15. Charting the Future: Francis Fukuyama
The End of History?; Samuel P. Huntington
The Clash of Civilizations?; Stephen Eric Bronner
The End of History Revisited
