Preface

Introduction: What is Antiliberalism?

Part I. The Antiliberals

Maistre and the Antiliberal Tradition
Schmitt: The Debility of Liberalism
Strauss: Truths for Philosophers Alone
Maclntyre: The Antiliberal Catechism
Anti-Prometheanism: The Case of Christopher Lasch
Unger: Antiliberalism Unbound
The Community Trap
Part II. Misunderstanding the Liberal Past

Antiliberals as Historians of Liberal Thought
The "Atomization" of Society?
Indifference toward the Common Good?
The Eclipse of Authority?
The Public Realm Sacrificed to the Private?
EconomicMan?
The Selfishness of Rights?
Moral Skepticism?
The Crimes of Reason?
Antonym Substitution

Conclusion
Notes
Index

Stephen Holmes is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.