Foreword
by George Boger

Preface: About this Book

Instead of an Introduction: How to Read Plato's Dialogues?

PART ONE - FOUNDATIONS OF LIBERTY

Chapter One: Freedom - General and Universal
1. The Will to Freedom
2. The Liberating Truth
3. The Individual and the Communal

Chapter Two: Dialectic of liberty
1. Institutions of Freedom
2. Liberty and Domination

Chapter Three: Participation and Appropriation

PART TWO - IDENTITY, DIFFERENCE AND PARTICIPATION

Chapter Four: Onto-Politics and Political Ontology

Chapter Five: Equality and Difference
1. Differential Equality
2. Philosophical Education and Political Consciousness

Chapter Six: The Good - Rationality, Totality, Dialectic
1. The Rationality of the Good
2. The Totality of the Good - The Conception of methexis
a) The Concept of methexis in the Parmenides
b) The Sophist - symplokê and the Hierarchy of Ideas
3. The Dialectical Nature of the Good
Excursus: The Time of Liberty

PART THREE - PLATO AND DEMOCRACY

Chapter Seven: Justice, Politics and Philosophy
1. Justice
2. Politicizing Philosophy
3. Philosophizing Politics

Chapter Eight: Foundations of Responisbility
1. Psychology of the Political
2. Theoretical Responsibility and Practical Accountability

Chapter Nine: The Politics of Virtue
1. Theoria, Praxis and Techne
2. The Virtue of Citizenship

Chapter Ten: Dialectic of Liberty Revisited - Democracy and Politeia
1. Plato and Democracy, Ancient and Modern
a) Dêmos
b) Qualifying for Politics
c) Consensus
2. Platonic Anti-Platonism

Epilogue: Liberty in the Polis

Selected Bibliography

Index of Names