Foreword
Introduction
Part 1. Contemporary State of Liberal Theory
Citizenship & moral individuality
Liberal values, Liberal guilt & the disaster for politics
Liberalism, value & social cohesion
Value of liberalism
Communitarianism in Practice: The Threat to Individual Rights from the Imtitutionalist Interpretation of the German Basic Law
Part 2. Liberalism in the West
Limits & the crisis of liberal politics
Social & cultural problems in contemporary Europe: On Recent Challenl{eS to Liberal Ideas
Two dilemmas of liberalism, Historical Exhaustion and Internal Division in a World of Globalization
German difficulties with liberalism: A Historical Outline
Part 3. Liberalism in the East
The Burdens of the Past
Liberalism in Central Europe after 1989
Can Weak-State Liberalism Survive?
Neo-Liberalism, Post-Comniunist Transformation, and Civil Society
Constitutional Transformation in Post-Communist Central Europe: A Liberal Revolution
Law, Tradition and Liberalism in Practice: Quo Vadis, East Central Europe
Contributors
Name index
