Stephen Mulhall is Reader Philosophy at Essex University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of On Being in the World (1990). Adam Swift is Fellow and Tutor in Politics and Sociology at Balliol College, Oxford.

• Preface to Second Edition. Preface to First Edition.Acknowledgements.Abbreviations.Introduction: Rawls's Original Position.Part I: Communitarian Critiques:.Introduction.1. Sandel: The Limits of Liberalism.2. MacIntyre: Morality After Virtue.3. Taylor: The Sources of the Liberal Self.4. Walzer: Justice and Abstraction.Concluding Summary.Part II: Rawls's Response.5. Rawls's Political Liberalism.6. Political Liberalism and the Communitarian Critique.7. Political Liberalism: Political or Comprehensive?.Part III: Liberalism, Politics and Neutrality.8. Rorty: Liberalism Without Foundations.9. Dworkin: Philosophical Foundations for State Neutrality.10. Raz: The Politics of Perfection.Conclusion.Bibliography.Index.

Stephen Mulhall is Reader Philosophy at Essex University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of On Being in the World (1990). Adam Swift is Fellow and Tutor in Politics and Sociology at Balliol College, Oxford.

• Preface to Second Edition. Preface to First Edition.Acknowledgements.Abbreviations.Introduction: Rawls's Original Position.Part I: Communitarian Critiques:.Introduction.1. Sandel: The Limits of Liberalism.2. MacIntyre: Morality After Virtue.3. Taylor: The Sources of the Liberal Self.4. Walzer: Justice and Abstraction.Concluding Summary.Part II: Rawls's Response.5. Rawls's Political Liberalism.6. Political Liberalism and the Communitarian Critique.7. Political Liberalism: Political or Comprehensive?.Part III: Liberalism, Politics and Neutrality.8. Rorty: Liberalism Without Foundations.9. Dworkin: Philosophical Foundations for State Neutrality.10. Raz: The Politics of Perfection.Conclusion.Bibliography.Index.

Stephen Mulhall is Reader Philosophy at Essex University and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is the author of On Being in the World (1990). Adam Swift is Fellow and Tutor in Politics and Sociology at Balliol College, Oxford.

• Preface to Second Edition. Preface to First Edition.Acknowledgements.Abbreviations.Introduction: Rawls's Original Position.Part I: Communitarian Critiques:.Introduction.1. Sandel: The Limits of Liberalism.2. MacIntyre: Morality After Virtue.3. Taylor: The Sources of the Liberal Self.4. Walzer: Justice and Abstraction.Concluding Summary.Part II: Rawls's Response.5. Rawls's Political Liberalism.6. Political Liberalism and the Communitarian Critique.7. Political Liberalism: Political or Comprehensive?.Part III: Liberalism, Politics and Neutrality.8. Rorty: Liberalism Without Foundations.9. Dworkin: Philosophical Foundations for State Neutrality.10. Raz: The Politics of Perfection.Conclusion.Bibliography.Index.