Table of Contents
A Short Methodological Introduction vii
1 What Is Liberalism? 1
2 Liberalism and Racial Slavery: A Unique Twin Birth 35
3 White Servants between Metropolis and Colonies: Proto-Liberal Society 67
4 Were Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England and America Liberal? 95
5 The Revolution in France and San Domingo, the Crisis of the English and American Models, and the Formation of Radicalism Either Side of the Atlantic 127
6 The Struggle for Recognition by the Instruments of Labour in the Metropolis and the Reaction of the Community of the Free 181
7 The West and the Barbarians: A 'Master-Race Democracy' on a Planetary Scale 219
8 Self-Consciousness, False Consciousness and Conflicts in the Community of the Free 241
9 Sacred Space and Profane Space in the History of Liberalism 297
10 Liberalism and the Catastrophe of the Twentieth Century 323
References 345
Index 363
