The voice of Richard Flathman in the conversation of liberalism / Patrick Neal -- The skepticism of willful liberalism / Linda Zerilli -- Breaking into the prison of practice : Flathman and Oakeshott on theorizing and doing / Peter Digeser -- Individuality and egotism / George Kateb -- The fetish of individuality : Richard Flathman's willfully liberal politics / Ronald Beiner -- Freedom, Flathman, and feminism / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- Liberty conceived as the opposite of slavery / Richard Friedman -- Hobbes and the principle of publicity / Jeremy J. Waldron -- Flathman's Hobbes / Richard Tuck -- Liberalism's leap of faith / Anne Norton -- Mouths, bodies, and the state / Jane Bennett and William E. Connolly.