Preface, Acknowledgments, 1. Prepare to meet thy doom: A sermon on the ambivalences of progress, reason, liberty, equality and fraternity, 2. Myth, ideology and revolution, 3. Democracy and industrialization, 4. Contemporary thought and politics, 5. Behind the barricades at LSE, 6. The panther and the dove: Reflections on rebelliousness and its milieux, 7. How to live in anarchy, 8.

The concept of a story, 9. Our current sense of history, 10. Ernst Kolman: or, knowledge and communism, 11. Scale and nation, 12. The pluralist anti-levellers of Prague, 13. The dangers of tolerance, 14. On democracy in France, Sources, Index of names, Index of subjects.