Table of Contents

Part One: Conceptual Analysis and Political Theories 1. What are Political Concepts? 2. Conceptual Disputes 3. Political Theories: Conceptual Structures and Enduring Types Part Two: Political Concepts 4. Negative and Positive Liberty 5. Liberty and Power 6. Equality 7. Equality and Liberty in Political Theories 8. Justice and Liberalism 9. Justice, Society, and Community 10. Political Authority 11. Concluding Remarks: From Political Concepts to Political Theories

About the Author

Gerald F. Gaus is professor of philosophy at Tulane University. He has been professor of and political science at the University of Minnesota, Duluth professor of ethics and public philosophy at Queensland University of Technology, Australia research fellow at the Australian National University visiting research fellow at the University of New England, New South Wales and visiting scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy centre, Bowling Green State University. He is the author of The Modern Liberal Theory of Man (1983), Value and Justification (1990), Justificatory Liberalism (1996), and Social Philosophy (1999). With Stanley Benn, he edited Public and Private in Social Life (1983), and with F. B. D'Agostino, he edited Public Reason (1998). With William Street, he edited Bernard Bosanquet's The Philosophical Theory of the State and Related Essays (2000). He is co-editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and co-founding editor of PPE: A Journal of Politics, Philosophy, and Economics.