Politics and Vision

Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought. With a New Foreword by Wendy Brown

  • Princeton Univers. Press
  • Softcover
  • 16000. Revised & expanded edition
  • 213 mm x 141 mm x 53 mm
  • Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2016
  • Artikelnummer 978-0-691-17405-1

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Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. Substantially expanded for republication in 2004, it is both a sweeping survey of Western political thought and a powerful account of contemporary predicaments of power and democracy. In lucid and compelling prose, Sheldon Wolin offers original, subtle, and often surprising interpretations of political theorists from Plato to Rawls. Situating them historically while sounding their depths, he critically engages their diverse accounts of politics, theory, power, justice, citizenship, and institutions. The new chapters, which show how thinkers have grappled with the immense possibilities and dangers of modern power, are themselves a major theoretical statement. They culminate in Wolin's remarkable argument that the United States has invented a new political form, "inverted totalitarianism," in which economic rather than political power is dangerously dominant. In this expanded edition, the book that helped to define political theory in the late twentieth century should energize, enlighten, and provoke generations of scholars to come

Sheldon S. Wolin
Sheldon S. Wolin (1922—2015), Demokratietheoretiker und Politikwissenschaftler, lehrte politische Theorie am Oberlin College, an den Universitäten von Kalifornien, Berkeley, Santa Cruz und Los Angeles, der Princeton University, der Cornell University und der Oxford University. Zu seinen Schülerinnen zählte Judith Butler. Er war der Gründungsherausgeber des Journal of Democracy. Wolin schrieb in seiner politischen Theorie der Demokratie einen flüchtigen Charakter zu und betonte die zentrale Kraft lokaler Formen der politischen Beteiligung als Gegengewicht zu den totalisierenden Tendenzen staatlicher Macht.