It is often said that the rise of analytic philosophy in the early 20th C and with it the remarkable transitions in how moral and political concerns appeared could legitimately be addressed spelled the 'death of political theory' in the Anglophone world, until Rawls revived political theory from...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Moderns and Plato -- 2 Liberty and the Just Moral Conscience -- 3 The Cultivation of the Individual and Society: J. S. Mill's Use of Ancient and Romantic Dialectics -- 4 On Liberty: Overcoming the West's One-Sided Moral Development --...