Sheldon S Wolin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 107300 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sheldon S Wolin |
| PRENOMES | Sheldon S |
| SOBRENOME | Wolin |
| ASSINATURA | WOLIN S S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 262 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1953 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Transgression, Equality, and Voice
Democracy
Chapter 9. Max Weber
Fugitive Democracy
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…
Democracy Incorporated
Fugitive Democracy
Politics and Vision
Fugitive Democracy
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…
Democracy Incorporated
Politics and Vision
Agitated Times
Tocqueville between Two Worlds
Journal Article Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life Get access Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life. By Wolin Sheldon S.. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. x, 650 pp. $35.00, isbn0-691-074364.) Matthew Mancini Matthew Mancini Saint Louis UniversitySt. Louis, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of A…
Tocqueville between Two Worlds
Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the first work that fully connects Tocqueville's political and theoretical lives. In doing so, Sheldon Wolin presents sweeping new interpretations of Tocqu…
Brave New World
Brave New World Sheldon S. Wolin (bio) i The phrase most frequently encountered these days in newspapers, on television, radio, and the Internet is “new world.” Unlike the world-creation described in the Book of Genesis where the Lord was said to have created the wor1d in six days and to have been so exhausted by his labors that he rested on the seventh; and unlike the uncertainty surrounding the exact date of that achievement we are assured for …
Transgression, Equality, and Voice
What Time Is It
Two Fugitive Democracy
Books in Review
Fugitive Democracy”
Democracy, Difference, and Re-cognition
To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions. Thoreau
Democracy
The third-century Christian convert, Tertullian, once asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” A twentieth-century American political scientist might ask, What has Athens to do with Washington? In both cases the answer is not as obvious as the rhetorical question would imply. Historically, revelation's identity depended on its contrast with reason even as it sought reason's discredit. American democracy has always been dogged by a so-called…
Executive Liberation
Taming the Prince has a claim on our attention not only for its theoretical qualities and for its politics but because at one time both would have been considered extreme. As a theory it is possibly the first attempt to compose a philosophical discourse about a singular political office, variously named kingship, prince, executive, or president, and to situate it within the con-text of (what used to be confidently called) “the history of politica…
The Presence of the Past
I. Democracy and the Welfare State
Archaism and Modernity
The text which serves as the basis for the reflections which follow is a single sentence from Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: “A new science of politics is indispensable to a wholly new world.”
Political Theory as a Vocation
The purpose of this paper is to sketch some of the implications, prospective and retrospective, of the primacy of method in the present study of politics and to do it by way of a contrast, which is deliberately heightened, but hopefully not caricatured, between the vocation of the "methodist" and the vocation of the theorist. My discussion will be centered around the kinds of activity involved in the two vocations. During the course of the discus…
Max Weber
AX WEBER IS widely regarded as one of the founders of twentieth-century social science and probably its greatest practitioner. Modern and ancient theorists commonly believed that founding-or giving a form or constitution to collective life-was reckoned to be the most notable action of which political man is capable. It is superior to other types of political acts because it aims to shape the lives of citizens by designing the structure or dwellin…
Democracy, Difference, and Re-cognition
To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions. Thoreau
Books in Review
Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics
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The Berkeley Student Revolt
The Politics of the Study of Revolution
The study of revolution has become a well-organized and defined undertaking in the United States during the last quarter century. It is now a specialized field in which a considerable number of political and social scientists have invested substantial time and energy. Government, foundations, research centers, and universities have supported the enterprise and helped to institutionalize it. As a result of these and other influences, the study of …
Contract and Birthright
Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. And Esau said to Jacob, Let me eat some of that red pottage, for am famished!. . . Jacob said First sell me your birthright. Esau said, I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me? Jacob said, Swear to me first. So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.... Thus Esau despised his birthright [Gen. 25: 29-34
I. Democracy and the Welfare State
Hume and Conservatism
Although David Hume's stature as a philosopher has rarely been questioned, his claims as a political theorist have fared less well. Jefferson showed deep hostility towards Hume's ideas, while John Adams could find agreement with only a few points. Later opinion has been less vehement but still reserved. Thomas Huxley thought Hume's political writings suggestive, but on the whole marred by an unabashed desire for literary success. In Sir Leslie St…
Democracy
The third-century Christian convert, Tertullian, once asked, “What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” A twentieth-century American political scientist might ask, What has Athens to do with Washington? In both cases the answer is not as obvious as the rhetorical question would imply. Historically, revelation's identity depended on its contrast with reason even as it sought reason's discredit. American democracy has always been dogged by a so-called…
Agitated Times
Política y perspectiva. Continuidad y cambio en el pensamiento político occidental
Richard Hooker and English Conservatism
] ] TAUGHT IS CONSTANT, naught abiding; all things whirl in ceaseless change. These words of Heraclitus might well be taken by some future student as a suitable epitaph for political thought of first half of twentieth century. As so often happens, thought has but reflected flux and uncertainty of events. Intellectual insecurity, in turn, has made contemporary man receptive to each new historical synthesis and eager to embrace every additional dia…
Executive Liberation
Taming the Prince has a claim on our attention not only for its theoretical qualities and for its politics but because at one time both would have been considered extreme. As a theory it is possibly the first attempt to compose a philosophical discourse about a singular political office, variously named kingship, prince, executive, or president, and to situate it within the con-text of (what used to be confidently called) “the history of politica…
IV. The Politics of Self-Disclosure
LKN HIS PREFACE MICHAEL OAKESHOTT REMARKS that On Human Conduct contains the fundamental themes which been with me nearly as long as I can remember (p. vii). Many of them will be familiar to his readers: the controlling preoccupation with the practices and language of civility; the affection for traditional usages; skepticism about salvific politics and theories; and an abiding concern with preventing the dissociation of political theory from an …
Politics and Religion
The encounter between the human mind and the outside world is the essence of speculation. The dramatic element in the encounter has been provided by man's assertion that mind is capable of comprehending and ordering the world about him. This same "epistemological presumptuousness," which we associate instinctively with the spectacular successes of the natural sciences, has also been implicit in the enterprise of political theory. Here, too, the c…
Archaism and Modernity
The text which serves as the basis for the reflections which follow is a single sentence from Tocqueville's Democracy in America: "A new science of politics is indispensable to a wholly new world
Richard Hooker and English Conservatism
] ] TAUGHT IS CONSTANT, naught abiding; all things whirl in ceaseless change. These words of Heraclitus might well be taken by some future student as a suitable epitaph for political thought of first half of twentieth century. As so often happens, thought has but reflected flux and uncertainty of events. Intellectual insecurity, in turn, has made contemporary man receptive to each new historical synthesis and eager to embrace every additional dia…
The Hedgehog and the Fox
Political Thought in England
Hume and Conservatism
Although David Hume's stature as a philosopher has rarely been questioned, his claims as a political theorist have fared less well. Jefferson showed deep hostility towards Hume's ideas, while John Adams could find agreement with only a few points. Later opinion has been less vehement but still reserved. Thomas Huxley thought Hume's political writings suggestive, but on the whole marred by an unabashed desire for literary success. In Sir Leslie St…
Lord Acton
Lord Acton
Why Dictators? The Causes and Forms of Tyrannical Rule since 600 B. C
Politics and Religion
The encounter between the human mind and the outside world is the essence of speculation. The dramatic element in the encounter has been provided by man's assertion that mind is capable of comprehending and ordering the world about him. This same "epistemological presumptuousness," which we associate instinctively with the spectacular successes of the natural sciences, has also been implicit in the enterprise of political theory. Here, too, the c…
Calvin and the Reformation
The purpose of this essay is to draw attention to two aspects of the political ideas of the sixteenth century Reformation which were important to the development of the Western tradition of political theory. First, like all great transformations, the Reformation stimulated the rethinking of much that had been taken for granted. In terms of political ideas, this centered around a developing crisis in the concept of order and in the Western traditi…
Politics and Vision
Professional Conferences
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Violence and the Western political tradition
Western political systems have sought to concentrate, and hence increase, the instruments of violence in the hands of the state and to diminish the means of violence available to private groups. Three basic approaches have been put forward: the “disguise of violence,” the introduction of a “mediator” and the creation of a “science of violence.” One of today's critical problems is that all three approaches have steadily lost their efficacy and app…
Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Berkeley Student Revolt
Political Theory as a Vocation
The purpose of this paper is to sketch some of the implications, prospective and retrospective, of the primacy of method in the present study of politics and to do it by way of a contrast, which is deliberately heightened, but hopefully not caricatured, between the vocation of the "methodist" and the vocation of the theorist. My discussion will be centered around the kinds of activity involved in the two vocations. During the course of the discus…
The Politics of the Study of Revolution
The study of revolution has become a well-organized and defined undertaking in the United States during the last quarter century. It is now a specialized field in which a considerable number of political and social scientists have invested substantial time and energy. Government, foundations, research centers, and universities have supported the enterprise and helped to institutionalize it. As a result of these and other influences, the study of …
Política y perspectiva. Continuidad y cambio en el pensamiento político occidental
IV. The Politics of Self-Disclosure
LKN HIS PREFACE MICHAEL OAKESHOTT REMARKS that On Human Conduct contains the fundamental themes which been with me nearly as long as I can remember (p. vii). Many of them will be familiar to his readers: the controlling preoccupation with the practices and language of civility; the affection for traditional usages; skepticism about salvific politics and theories; and an abiding concern with preventing the dissociation of political theory from an …
Max Weber
AX WEBER IS widely regarded as one of the founders of twentieth-century social science and probably its greatest practitioner. Modern and ancient theorists commonly believed that founding-or giving a form or constitution to collective life-was reckoned to be the most notable action of which political man is capable. It is superior to other types of political acts because it aims to shape the lives of citizens by designing the structure or dwellin…
Archaism and Modernity
The text which serves as the basis for the reflections which follow is a single sentence from Tocqueville’s Democracy in America: “A new science of politics is indispensable to a wholly new world.”
Contract and Birthright
Once when Jacob was boiling pottage, Esau came in from the field, and he was famished. And Esau said to Jacob, Let me eat some of that red pottage, for am famished!. . . Jacob said First sell me your birthright. Esau said, I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me? Jacob said, Swear to me first. So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.... Thus Esau despised his birthright [Gen. 25: 29-34
Archaism and Modernity
The text which serves as the basis for the reflections which follow is a single sentence from Tocqueville's Democracy in America: "A new science of politics is indispensable to a wholly new world
I. Democracy and the Welfare State
The Presence of the Past
Executive Liberation
Taming the Prince has a claim on our attention not only for its theoretical qualities and for its politics but because at one time both would have been considered extreme. As a theory it is possibly the first attempt to compose a philosophical discourse about a singular political office, variously named kingship, prince, executive, or president, and to situate it within the con-text of (what used to be confidently called) “the history of politica…
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