Public philosophy
- London Hamish Hamilton 1955
- 168p.
BOOK ONE: The Decline of the West Chapter I: THE OBSCURE REVOLUTION 1. My Reason for Writing This Book 2. 1917: The Revolutionary Year 3. Internal Revolution in the Democracies 4. The Paralysis of Governments
Chapter II: THE MALADY OF DEMOCRATIC STATES 1. Public Opinion in War and Peace 2. The Compulsion to Make Mistakes 3. The Pattern of the Mistakes 4. Democratic Politicians.
Chapter III: THE DERANGEMENT OF POWERS 1. The Governors and the Governed The People and the Voters. 2. The compulsion to make mistakes 3. The Recently Enfranchised Voters
Chapter IV: THE PUBLIC INTEREST 1. What is the Public Interest? 2. The Equations of Reality
Chapter V: THE TWO FUNCTIONS 1. The Elected Executive 2. The Protection of the.Executive 3. The Voters and the Executive 4.The Enfeebled Executive
Chapter VI: THE TOTALITARIAN COUNTER-REVOLUTION 1. Certain of its Lessons 2. A Prognosis
Chapter VII: THE ADVERSARIES OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY 1. Liberalism and Jacobinism 2. The Paradigm of Revolution 3. Democratic Education 4. From Jacobinism to Leninism 5. The Overpassing of the Bound