The Public Philosophy

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Book One: The Decline of the West -- Chapter I: The Obscure Revolution -- 1. My Reason for Writing This Book -- 2. 1917: The Revolutionary Year -- 3. Internal Revolution in the Democracies -- 4. The Paralysis of Governments -- Chapter II: The Malady of Democratic States -- 1. Public Opinion in War and Peace -- 2. The Compulsion to Make Mistakes -- 3. The Pattern of the Mistakes -- 4. Democratic Politicians -- Chapter III: The Derangement of Powers -- 1. The Governors and the Governed -- 2. The People and the Voters -- 3. The Recently Enfranchised Voters -- Chapter IV: The Public Interest -- 1. What Is the Public Interest? -- 2. The Equations of Reality -- Chapter V: The Two Functions -- 1. The Elected Executive -- 2. The Protection of the Executive -- 3. The Voters and the Executive -- 4. The Enfeebled Executive -- Chapter VI: The Totalitarian Counterrevolution -- 1. Certain of Its Lessons -- 2. A Prognosis -- Chapter VII: The Adversaries of Liberal Democracy -- 1. Liberalism and Jacobinism -- 2. The Paradigm of Revolution -- 3. Democratic Education -- 4. From Jacobinism to Leninism -- 5. The Overpassing of the Bound -- Book Two: The Public Philosophy -- Chapter VIII: The Eclipse of the Public Philosophy -- 1. On the Efficacy of Ideas -- 2. The Great Vacuum -- 3. The Neglect of the Public Philosophy -- 4. The Universal Laws of the Rational Order -- 5. The Rupture in Modern Times -- Chapter IX: The Renewal of the Public Philosophy -- 1. The Capacity to Believe -- 2. For Example: The Theory of Property -- 3. For Example: Freedom of Speec -- 4. The Limits of Dissent -- 5. The Mirror of History -- 6. Man's Second Nature -- Chapter X: The Two Realms -- 1. The Confusion of the Realms -- 2. The Good in This World -- 3. The Law and the Prophets