Michael H. Lessnoff is Reader in Politics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Spirit of Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic (1994); Social Contract (1986); and The Structure of Social Science: A Philosophical Introduction (1974).

• Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction.2. Max Weber and the Politics of the Twentieth Century.Part I: Critics of Consumerist Capitalism:.3. Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: The Tyranny of Instrumental Reason.4. Hannah Arendt: Classical Republicanism and the Modern World.5. C. B. Macpherson: Possessive Individualism and Liberal Democracy.Part II: Embattled Liberalism:.6. Michael Oakeshott: Rationalism and Civil Association.7. Friedruch Hayek: The Theory of Spontaneous Order.8. Karl Popper: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society.9. Isaiah Berlin: Monism and Pluralism.Part III: Contemporaries:.10. John Rawls: Liberal Justice.11. Robert Nozick: The Minimal State.12. Jurgen Habermas: Discourse Ethics and Democracy.13. Conclusion: The End of History?.Index.

Michael H. Lessnoff is Reader in Politics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Spirit of Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic (1994); Social Contract (1986); and The Structure of Social Science: A Philosophical Introduction (1974).

• Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction.2. Max Weber and the Politics of the Twentieth Century.Part I: Critics of Consumerist Capitalism:.3. Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: The Tyranny of Instrumental Reason.4. Hannah Arendt: Classical Republicanism and the Modern World.5. C. B. Macpherson: Possessive Individualism and Liberal Democracy.Part II: Embattled Liberalism:.6. Michael Oakeshott: Rationalism and Civil Association.7. Friedruch Hayek: The Theory of Spontaneous Order.8. Karl Popper: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society.9. Isaiah Berlin: Monism and Pluralism.Part III: Contemporaries:.10. John Rawls: Liberal Justice.11. Robert Nozick: The Minimal State.12. Jurgen Habermas: Discourse Ethics and Democracy.13. Conclusion: The End of History?.Index.

Michael H. Lessnoff is Reader in Politics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of The Spirit of Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic (1994); Social Contract (1986); and The Structure of Social Science: A Philosophical Introduction (1974).

• Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction.2. Max Weber and the Politics of the Twentieth Century.Part I: Critics of Consumerist Capitalism:.3. Herbert Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: The Tyranny of Instrumental Reason.4. Hannah Arendt: Classical Republicanism and the Modern World.5. C. B. Macpherson: Possessive Individualism and Liberal Democracy.Part II: Embattled Liberalism:.6. Michael Oakeshott: Rationalism and Civil Association.7. Friedruch Hayek: The Theory of Spontaneous Order.8. Karl Popper: Critical Rationalism and the Open Society.9. Isaiah Berlin: Monism and Pluralism.Part III: Contemporaries:.10. John Rawls: Liberal Justice.11. Robert Nozick: The Minimal State.12. Jurgen Habermas: Discourse Ethics and Democracy.13. Conclusion: The End of History?.Index.