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almafu_9959051649802883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780691185538
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Foreword --
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Editor's Introduction --
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Part One. The Political and Theoretical --
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Chapter 1. Political Theory as a Vocation --
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Chapter 2. Political Theory: From Vocation to Invocation --
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Part Two. Historical --
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Ancient and Modern Democracy --
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Chapter 3. Transgression, Equality, and Voice --
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Chapter 4. Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Democracy --
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Chapter 5. Fugitive Democracy --
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Hobbes --
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Chapter 6. Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory --
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Chapter 7. Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism --
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Modern Theorists --
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Chapter 8. On Reading Marx Politically --
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Chapter 9. Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory --
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Part Three. Recent Theorists --
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Chapter 10. Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society --
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Chapter 11. Hannah Arendt: Democracy and the Political --
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Chapter 12. Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time --
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Chapter 13. The Liberal/Democratic Divide: On Rawls's Political Liberalism --
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Part Four. Postmoderns --
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Chapter 14. On the Theory and Practice of Power --
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Chapter 15. Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism --
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Chapter 16. Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth --
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Chapter 17. The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism --
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Chapter 18. From Progress to Modernization: The Conservative Turn --
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Part Five. Revisioning Democracy --
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Chapter 19. Editorial --
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Chapter 20. What Revolutionary Action Means Today --
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Chapter 21. The People's Two Bodies --
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Chapter 22. The New Public Philosophy --
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Chapter 23. Democracy, Difference, and Re- Cognition --
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Chapter 24. Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power: An Essay of Juxtapositions --
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Chapter 25. Agitated Times --
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Notes --
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Sources --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.23943/9780691185538
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.23943/9780691185538
URL:
Princeton scholarship online
