Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART ONE: EGALITARIAN-LIBERALISM -- PART TWO: LIBERTARIANISM -- PART THREE: COMMUNITARIANISM -- PART FOUR: REPUBLICANISM -- PART FIVE: FEMINISM -- PART SIX: DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY -- PART SEVEN: MULTICULTURALISM -- John Rawls -- John C. Harsanyi -- Richard J. Arneson -- Alex Callinicos -- John Kekes -- Robert Nozick -- Eric Mack -- Robert E. Litan -- David Gauthier -- Allen Buchanan -- Michael J. Sandel -- Will Kymlicka -- Michael Walzer -- Philip Pettit -- Alan Patten -- James Bohman -- Susan Moller Okin -- Iris Marion Young -- Nancy Fraser -- Iris Marion Young -- Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson -- John S. Dryzek -- Charles Taylor -- Bhikhu Parekh -- Chandran Kukathas. Justice as fairness / The maximin principle / Primary goods reconsidered / Equality of what? / A question for egalitarians / The entitlement theory of justice / How liberty upsets patterns / On rectification in Nozick's minimal state / Justice as mutual advantage / A critique of justice as reciprocity / The procedural republic and the unencumbered self / Liberal individualism and liberal neutrality / Complex equality / Freedom as antipower / The republican critique of liberalism / Cosmopolitan republicanism / The public/private dichotomy / The ideal of community and the politics of difference / Recognition of redistribution? / The deliberative model / Deliberative democracy beyond process / Legitimacy and economy in deliberative democracy / The politics of recognition / Equality of difference / Liberalism and multiculturalism /