1. Is patriotism a mistake? -- 2. Notes on pluralism -- 3. Undermining the constitution -- 4. A life of fear -- 5. On being watched and known -- 6. Aestheticism and morality : their cooperation and hostility -- 7. The judgment of Arendt -- 8. Courage as a virtue -- 9. Technology and philosophy -- 10. Socratic integrity -- 11. Wildness and conscience : Thoreau and Emerson -- 12. Prohibition and transgression -- 13. Hobbes and the irrationality of politics -- 14. Ideology and storytelling -- 15. Can cultures be judged? : two defenses of cultural pluralism in Isaiah Berlin's work -- 16. The adequacy of the Canon