This book makes a case for the renewal of the public philosophy - and offers a fresh approach to the problem of practical political reason. The free market ideology and the economic model of rationality of classical liberalism have dominated public debate in recent years.

Charles W. Anderson is Hawkins Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the author of several books, including Statecraft: An Introduction to Political Choiceand Judgment and Prescribing the Life of the Mind.