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Politics and Vision

By Wolin, Sheldon S.

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Politics and Vision

By Wolin, Sheldon S.

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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
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
761
Release Date:
2016-09-12
Publication Date:
2016-10-01
Publisher:
Princeton Univers. Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691174059
ISBN13:
9780691174051
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
1035 g
Height:
141 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
52 cm
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