Liberals and communitarians

Introduction: Rawls's original position

Pt. I. Communitarian Critiques. 1. Sandel: the limits of liberalism. 2. MacIntyre: morality after virtue. 3. Taylor: the sources of the liberal self. 4. Walzer: justice and abstraction

Pt. II. Rawls's Response. 5. Rawls's political liberalism. 6. Political liberalism: for and against

Pt. III. Liberalism, Politics and Perfection. 7. Rorty: liberalism without foundations. 8. Raz: the politics of perfection.