Nicholas Xenos
Biographic Data
| ID | 966705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas Xenos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | Xenos |
| SIGNATURE | XENOS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9728-4972 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. Fugitive Democracy brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as "Political Theory as a Vocation," written amid the Cold War and the conflict in Vietnam, to his late radical essays on American democracy such as "Fugitive Democracy," in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenome…
Scarcity and Modernity
Originally published in 1989. In this book Nicholas Xenos argues that the assumption that scarcity is a universal human condition is far from universal but rather a product of western influence. Informed by the work of Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Girard, and Sahlins, this historical narrative of scarcity incorporates interpretations of texts and practices from eighteenth-century London to contemporary New York. Lucid and elegant in style, Scarcity and…
Sheldon Wolin’s theoretical practice
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
The author of this book was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. This book brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as “Political Theory as a Vocation,” written amid the Cold War and the conflict in Vietnam, to his late radical essays on American democracy such as “Fugitive Democracy,” in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenom…
A Discussion of Richard Flacks and Nelson Lichtenstein's The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left’s Founding Manifesto
The Port Huron Statement was one of the most important manifestos of the New Left in the United States. A foundational statement of the theme of “participatory democracy,” the text had an important influence on post-1960s politics and, arguably, on post-1960s political science. The recent publication of a new edition of the Statement is an occasion for reflection on its importance. And so we have invited a distinguished cast of political scientis…
Sheldon Wolin between Two Worlds
In an address written in response to an invitation to reflect on his seminal essay, “Political Theory as a Vocation” (1968) thirty years after its publication, Sheldon Wolin noted that the conference for which the invitation was offered was devoted to the future of political theory. That theme signaled a “temporal divide” between him and the conference organizers, and prompted him to a singular autobiographical moment. “My formative experiences,”…
Cloaked in virtue: Unveiling Leo Strauss and the rhetoric of American foreign policy
On the Borders of Politics
Reading Wolin (on Marx) Politically
Reading Wolin (on Marx) Politically Nicholas Xenos (bio) . . .the democratic road is the hard one to take. It is the road which places the greatest burden of responsibility upon the greatest number of human beings. — John Dewey In the preface to the expanded edition of Politics and Vision, Sheldon Wolin refers to what he calls “certain usages that now appear anachronistic” in the original text and asks that they serve as “a general reminder of ho…
The Disorder of Political Inquiry
The Disorder of Political Inquiry. By Keith Topper. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 336p. $45.00. The conceit framing Keith Topper's fine and necessary book is that the state of social science methods has grown so disordered it has even come to public attention, first when the journal Social Text unwittingly published Alan Sokal's parody of poststructuralist jargon and the now defunct Lingua Franca exposed the hoax, and then when t…
Questioning patriotism: Rejoinder to Viroli
The tradition of republican patriotism articulated by Maurizio Viroli only seems to avoid the naturalizing dangers inherent in the discourse of nationalism, whether in its so‐called civic or ethnic modes. Rousseau's comment that he wishes the patrie to be experienced as “la mere commune des citoyens” reflects the republican patriot's desire to find a home in the patria. This sentiment originated in Rome and comes down to us primarily in texts wri…
Civic nationalism: Oxymoron
Recent attempts to distinguish a normatively acceptable "civic nationalism"—as distinct from an irrationally tainted "ethnic nationalism"—have failed to take seriously the implications of the transition from the city as the immediate spatial unit of the patria to the more abstract national state that replaced it. The nation‐state has required a mythologizing naturalism to legitimate it, thus blurring the distinction between "civic" and "ethnic." …
Statelessness: The making and unmaking of political identity
(1996). Statelessness: The making and unmaking of political identity. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 820-825
The natural politics of nation and economy
Refugees: The Modern Political Condition
Having promised during his campaign for the presidency to devote his attention to domestic issues and to shun the foreign affairs focus said to have characterized the Bush administration's period in office, Bill Clinton took the oath of office amid a controversy of his own creation that transgressed the domestic/foreign border. Along with extending invitations to various balls and parties, preparations for the inauguration included the dispersal …
The state, rights, and the homogeneous nation
Political Theory & the Language of Politics
IV. Liberalism and the Postulate of Scarcity
Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism. Shlomo Avineri
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism. New Left Books: London, 1974. 304 pages
Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800
Fernand Braudel, Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800. New York: Harper and Row. 462 pages. $3.95 paper
Introduction to Korsch
In the critical appropriation of Western Marxism carried out in North America during the past decade, the work of Karl Korsch has been conspicuously neglected. While the writings of Georg Lukács, the Frankfurt School, and various French developments have received a great deal of attention in the form of articles, monographic studies, and translations, Korsch is frequently referred to but seldom studied in depth. Although some of Korsch's many pol…
Civic nationalism: Oxymoron
Recent attempts to distinguish a normatively acceptable "civic nationalism"—as distinct from an irrationally tainted "ethnic nationalism"—have failed to take seriously the implications of the transition from the city as the immediate spatial unit of the patria to the more abstract national state that replaced it. The nation‐state has required a mythologizing naturalism to legitimate it, thus blurring the distinction between "civic" and "ethnic." …
IV. Liberalism and the Postulate of Scarcity
Refugees: The Modern Political Condition
Having promised during his campaign for the presidency to devote his attention to domestic issues and to shun the foreign affairs focus said to have characterized the Bush administration's period in office, Bill Clinton took the oath of office amid a controversy of his own creation that transgressed the domestic/foreign border. Along with extending invitations to various balls and parties, preparations for the inauguration included the dispersal …
Questioning patriotism: Rejoinder to Viroli
The tradition of republican patriotism articulated by Maurizio Viroli only seems to avoid the naturalizing dangers inherent in the discourse of nationalism, whether in its so‐called civic or ethnic modes. Rousseau's comment that he wishes the patrie to be experienced as “la mere commune des citoyens” reflects the republican patriot's desire to find a home in the patria. This sentiment originated in Rome and comes down to us primarily in texts wri…
Sheldon Wolin’s theoretical practice
Sheldon Wolin between Two Worlds
In an address written in response to an invitation to reflect on his seminal essay, “Political Theory as a Vocation” (1968) thirty years after its publication, Sheldon Wolin noted that the conference for which the invitation was offered was devoted to the future of political theory. That theme signaled a “temporal divide” between him and the conference organizers, and prompted him to a singular autobiographical moment. “My formative experiences,”…
The state, rights, and the homogeneous nation
On the Borders of Politics
Political Theory & the Language of Politics
Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800
Fernand Braudel, Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800. New York: Harper and Row. 462 pages. $3.95 paper
Introduction to Korsch
In the critical appropriation of Western Marxism carried out in North America during the past decade, the work of Karl Korsch has been conspicuously neglected. While the writings of Georg Lukács, the Frankfurt School, and various French developments have received a great deal of attention in the form of articles, monographic studies, and translations, Korsch is frequently referred to but seldom studied in depth. Although some of Korsch's many pol…
Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism
Perry Anderson, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism. New Left Books: London, 1974. 304 pages
Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism. Shlomo Avineri
IV. Liberalism and the Postulate of Scarcity
Political Theory & the Language of Politics
The state, rights, and the homogeneous nation
Refugees: The Modern Political Condition
Having promised during his campaign for the presidency to devote his attention to domestic issues and to shun the foreign affairs focus said to have characterized the Bush administration's period in office, Bill Clinton took the oath of office amid a controversy of his own creation that transgressed the domestic/foreign border. Along with extending invitations to various balls and parties, preparations for the inauguration included the dispersal …
The natural politics of nation and economy
Civic nationalism: Oxymoron
Recent attempts to distinguish a normatively acceptable "civic nationalism"—as distinct from an irrationally tainted "ethnic nationalism"—have failed to take seriously the implications of the transition from the city as the immediate spatial unit of the patria to the more abstract national state that replaced it. The nation‐state has required a mythologizing naturalism to legitimate it, thus blurring the distinction between "civic" and "ethnic." …
Statelessness: The making and unmaking of political identity
(1996). Statelessness: The making and unmaking of political identity. The European Legacy: Vol. 1, Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the study of European Ideas, pp. 820-825
Questioning patriotism: Rejoinder to Viroli
The tradition of republican patriotism articulated by Maurizio Viroli only seems to avoid the naturalizing dangers inherent in the discourse of nationalism, whether in its so‐called civic or ethnic modes. Rousseau's comment that he wishes the patrie to be experienced as “la mere commune des citoyens” reflects the republican patriot's desire to find a home in the patria. This sentiment originated in Rome and comes down to us primarily in texts wri…
Reading Wolin (on Marx) Politically
Reading Wolin (on Marx) Politically Nicholas Xenos (bio) . . .the democratic road is the hard one to take. It is the road which places the greatest burden of responsibility upon the greatest number of human beings. — John Dewey In the preface to the expanded edition of Politics and Vision, Sheldon Wolin refers to what he calls “certain usages that now appear anachronistic” in the original text and asks that they serve as “a general reminder of ho…
The Disorder of Political Inquiry
The Disorder of Political Inquiry. By Keith Topper. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. 336p. $45.00. The conceit framing Keith Topper's fine and necessary book is that the state of social science methods has grown so disordered it has even come to public attention, first when the journal Social Text unwittingly published Alan Sokal's parody of poststructuralist jargon and the now defunct Lingua Franca exposed the hoax, and then when t…
Cloaked in virtue: Unveiling Leo Strauss and the rhetoric of American foreign policy
On the Borders of Politics
Sheldon Wolin between Two Worlds
In an address written in response to an invitation to reflect on his seminal essay, “Political Theory as a Vocation” (1968) thirty years after its publication, Sheldon Wolin noted that the conference for which the invitation was offered was devoted to the future of political theory. That theme signaled a “temporal divide” between him and the conference organizers, and prompted him to a singular autobiographical moment. “My formative experiences,”…
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
The author of this book was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. This book brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as “Political Theory as a Vocation,” written amid the Cold War and the conflict in Vietnam, to his late radical essays on American democracy such as “Fugitive Democracy,” in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenom…
A Discussion of Richard Flacks and Nelson Lichtenstein's The Port Huron Statement: Sources and Legacies of the New Left’s Founding Manifesto
The Port Huron Statement was one of the most important manifestos of the New Left in the United States. A foundational statement of the theme of “participatory democracy,” the text had an important influence on post-1960s politics and, arguably, on post-1960s political science. The recent publication of a new edition of the Statement is an occasion for reflection on its importance. And so we have invited a distinguished cast of political scientis…
Scarcity and Modernity
Originally published in 1989. In this book Nicholas Xenos argues that the assumption that scarcity is a universal human condition is far from universal but rather a product of western influence. Informed by the work of Baudrillard, Bourdieu, Girard, and Sahlins, this historical narrative of scarcity incorporates interpretations of texts and practices from eighteenth-century London to contemporary New York. Lucid and elegant in style, Scarcity and…
Sheldon Wolin’s theoretical practice
Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays
Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. Fugitive Democracy brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as "Political Theory as a Vocation," written amid the Cold War and the conflict in Vietnam, to his late radical essays on American democracy such as "Fugitive Democracy," in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenome…
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