Contract, culture, and citizenship: transformative liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls

"Where justice is called a virtue" : public reason and civic formation in Thomas Hobbes

Compact before liberal constructivism : the divine politics of John Locke

Governing subjects and breeding citizens : dilemmas of public reasoning and public judgment in Locke

Rousseau's contractarian republic : the culture of constitutional self-government

John Rawls, public reason, and transformative liberalism today

Conclusion : the politics of not settling down.