Fugitive Democracy

And Other Essays

Bibliographic Data

ID18992005
AuthorsSheldon S Wolin (corresponding author)
EditorsNicholas Xenos (0000-0002-9728-4972)
Year2016
Pages520
Publication date2016-09-20
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueFugitive Democracy (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.23943/princeton/9780691133645.001.0001
OpenAlexW4236298046
Open LibraryOL28161994M
ISBN9780691133645
LanguageEN
Citations received17

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 phenomenon distinct from the routinized political management that passes for democracy today. The author critically engages a diverse range of political theorists, including Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, John Rawls, Michel Foucault, and Richard Rorty. These essays grapple with topics such as power, modernization, the Sixties, revolutionary politics, and inequality, all the while showcasing the author's enduring commitment to writing civic-minded theoretical commentary on the most pressing political issues of the day. Here, the author laments the rise of conservatives who style themselves as revolutionary, criticizes Rawlsian liberals as abstract to the point of being apolitical, diagnoses postmodern theory as a form of acquiescence, and much more. The book 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

Aesthetics · Democracy · Epistemology · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Power (physics) · Reinterpretation · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Civics & Citizenship · Demokratie · Essays · General · History & Theory · Politische Theorie

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