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Fugitive democracy : and other essays / Sheldon S. Wolin ; edited by Nicholas Xenos.

Author/creator Wolin, Sheldon S. author.
Other author/creatorXenos, Nicholas, 1948- editor.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2016.
Descriptionxviii, 499 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Political Theory as a Vocation -- Political Theory : From Vocation to Invocation -- Transgression, Equality, and Voice -- Norm and Form : The Constitutionalizing of Democracy -- Fugitive Democracy -- Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory -- Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism -- On Reading Marx Politically -- Max Weber : Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory -- Reason in Exile : Critical Theory and Technological Society -- Hannah Arendt: Democracy and the Political -- Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time -- The Liberal/Democratic Divide : On Rawls's Political Liberalism -- On the Theory and Practice of Power -- Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism -- Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth -- The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism -- From Progress to Modernization : The Conservative Turn -- Editorial -- What Revolutionary Action Means Today -- The People's Two Bodies -- The New Public Philosophy -- Democracy, Difference, and Re-Cognition -- Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence and Modern Power -- Agitated Times.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 491-492) and index.
LCCN 2016007796
ISBN9780691133645 (hardback)
ISBN0691133646 (hardback)

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Joyner General Stacks JC423 .W57 2016 ✔ Available Place Hold