Fugitive democracy : and other essays / Sheldon S. Wolin ; edited by Nicholas Xenos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolin, Sheldon S., author.

Contributor:

Xenos, Nicholas, 1948- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (519 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. In Fugitive Democracy, the breathtaking range of Wolin's scholarship, political commitment, and critical acumen are on full display in this authoritative and accessible collection of essays. This book brings together his most important writings, from classic essays to his late radical essays on American democracy such as "Fugitive Democracy," in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenomenon distinct from the routinized political management that passes for democracy today. Wolin critically engages a diverse range of political theorists, and grapples with topics such as power, modernization, the sixties, revolutionary politics, and inequality, all the while showcasing enduring commitment to writing civic-minded theoretical commentary on the most pressing political issues of the day. Fugitive Democracy offers enduring insights into many of today's most pressing political predicaments, and introduces a whole new generation of readers to this provocative figure in contemporary political thought.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Editor's Introduction

Part One. The Political and Theoretical

Chapter 1. Political Theory as a Vocation

Chapter 2. Political Theory: From Vocation to Invocation

Part Two. Historical

Ancient and Modern Democracy

Chapter 3. Transgression, Equality, and Voice

Chapter 4. Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Democracy

Chapter 5. Fugitive Democracy

Hobbes

Chapter 6. Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory

Chapter 7. Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism

Modern Theorists

Chapter 8. On Reading Marx Politically

Chapter 9. Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory

Part Three. Recent Theorists

Chapter 10. Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society

Chapter 11. Hannah Arendt: Democracy and the Political

Chapter 12. Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time

Chapter 13. The Liberal/Democratic Divide: On Rawls's Political Liberalism

Part Four. Postmoderns

Chapter 14. On the Theory and Practice of Power

Chapter 15. Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism

Chapter 16. Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth

Chapter 17. The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism

Chapter 18. From Progress to Modernization: The Conservative Turn

Part Five. Revisioning Democracy

Chapter 19. Editorial

Chapter 20. What Revolutionary Action Means Today

Chapter 21. The People's Two Bodies

Chapter 22. The New Public Philosophy

Chapter 23. Democracy, Difference, and Re- Cognition

Chapter 24. Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power: An Essay of Juxtapositions

Chapter 25. Agitated Times

Notes

Sources

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4008-8342-3

OCLC:

956520787