Modernity as Experience and Interpretation

Preface vii

1 Ways of Understanding Modernity 1

Part I: Interpretations of Political Modernity: Liberty and its Discontents 19

Overture: Multiple Interpretations of Political Modernity 21

2 Modernity and the Question of Freedom 24

3 The Political Forms of Modernity 39

4 Modernity as a Project of Emancipation and the Possibility of Politics 62