Expanded ed.

PART ONE: POLITICAL LIBERALISM: BASIC ELEMENTS:

Lecture I. Fundamental ideas

– Lecture II. The powers of citizens and their representation

– Lecture III. Political constructivism

– PART TWO: POLITICAL LIBERALISM: THREE MAIN IDEAS: Lecture IV. The idea of an overlapping consensus

– Lecture V. Priority of right and ideas of the good

– Lecture VI. The idea of public reason

– PART THREE: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: Lecture VII. The basic structure as subject

– Lecture VIII. The basic liberties and their priority

– Lecture IX. Reply to Habermas

– PART FOUR: THE IDEA OF PUBLIC REASON REVISITED: The idea of public reason revisited (1997).