Democracy Reconsidered

Part 1 Introduction: Why a Reconsideration of Democracy is Needed
Part 2 Part One: Democratic Relativism: A Crisis of Self-Evidence
Chapter 3 Chapter One: Our Crisis of Self-Evidence
Chapter 4 Chapter Two: The American Context of Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History
Chapter 5 Chapter Three: Gender Feminism in America: A Reconsideration of Nietzsche's Anti-Feminism
Chapter 6 Chapter Four: Anti-Snobs and Anti-Artists
Part 7 Part Two: Democracy's Transformation of the Human Character and Soul
Chapter 8 Chapter Five: Autonomy and Cruelty: Rorty and Montaigne on the Social Bond
Chapter 9 Chapter Six: Democracy and Philosophy as a Way of Life
Chapter 10 Chapter Seven: A Tale of Two Liberals: Re-Discovering American Liberalism in Flannery O'Connor's The Barber
Part 12 Part Three: Educating the Democratic Mind and Spirit
Chapter 12 Chapter Eight: The Rift in the Modern Mind: Tocqueville and Percy on the Rise of the Cartesian Self
Chapter 14 Chapter Nine: Religion and Community in Liberal Education and Liberal Democracy
Chapter 15 Chapter Ten: A Plea to Protect and Promote the Small Liberal Arts College as Such
Chapter 16 Chapter Eleven: Liberal Education and the Democratic Man
Chapter 17 Chapter Twelve: Liberal Education: A Friendly Critic of Liberal Democracy
Part 18 Part Four: Democracy in American Politics and Society
Chapter 19 Chapter Thirteen: Friendly Critics: Tocqueville and Croly on American Political Parties
Chapter 20 Chapter Fourteen: Bioethics and the American Characterwith a response by Eric Stone entitled "Of Revulsion and Joy"
Chapter 21 Chapter Fifteen: Progress or Tyranny? The Goodridge Dissents
Chapter 22 Chapter Sixteen: Women Against Liberation: Opposing Feminism in a Democratic Age