ABSTRACT
Chapter VIII discussed the private not in spatial terms, as an area of life somehow distinct from public life, but instead in psychological terms, as the self’s rejection of a polity that, however lush in appearance, ultimately is defined in the austere dialectic between property and money. Chapter XI argued that traditional liberalism, the intellectual effort to construct a polity as a matrix of private interests, is no longer sufficient, is in fact bankrupt. The liberal vision of political life is uncompelling; the self cannot be satisfyingly understood as the liberal rights holder. Liberal understandings of political life, and hence citizenship, merely recapitulate the inadequacies of capitalism.
