Mill on Democracy

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Modernity of Athens
The Ancients of the Moderns
Beyond the French Liberals
Against the British "Reactionaries"
2. The Polis of the Moderns
Are Mill's Politics Platonist?
Bureaucratic Despotism and the Displacement of Politics
"Talking" and "Doing"
Silence and Speech
The Politics of Indirectness
3. The Agora Model
Voice as Presence and Proportional Representation
Advocacy and Deliberation
The Two Faces of Representation
Procedural Equality and an Unequal Political Influence
Publicity, Sincerity, and Responsible Participation
4. The Socratic Ethos
The Sovereignty of the Individual
From Sophism to Socratism
The Public Critic
A Political Virtue of the Moderns
5. Democratic Liberty and Society
Beyond the Theory of the Two Liberties
Liberty as Freedom from Subjection
Subjection as Infantilization
Marital Despotism
Cooperation and the Democratic Project
Notes
Bibliography
Index