Preface: Return of the native / David Marquand -- Introduction / Ben Jackson and Marc Stears -- pt. 1. Liberal languages. A cautious embrace: reflections on (left) liberalism and utopia / David Leopold -- Socialism and the new liberalism / Ben Jackson -- Liberalisms in India: a sketch / Rochana Bajpai -- Liberalism and American stories of peoplehood / Marc Stears -- The liberal dilemma: the economic and the social, and the need for a European contextualization of a concept with universal pretensions / Bo Stråth -- The problem of political parties in western liberalism, 1868-1968 / Paolo Pombeni -- pt. 2. Ideologies and political theory. Liberalism and analytical political philosophy / David Weinstein -- Political ideology and political theory: reflections on an awkward partnership / Andrew Vincent -- Ideology, political philosophy, and the interpretive enterprise: a view from the other side / Gerald Gaus -- Civil society and the reconstruction of the public sphere: ideologies between theory and politics / Gayil Talshir -- In defence of political understanding? / Michael Kenny -- Getting 'real' about political ideas: conceptual morphology and the realist critique of Anglo-American political philosophy / Mathew Humphrey -- The professional responsibilities of the political theorist / Michael Freeden -- Michael Freeden: a bibliography.