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Book SynopsisConsiders the problems confronting political life by reviewing, assessing, and expanding on the ideas of Sheldon Wolin. This book consists of three sections linked by the underlying theme of Wolin's monumental effort to define "the political" and the conditions of democratic life.
Trade Review"Each of the essays in this book is a highly original work reflecting a command of Wolin's political and social thought, while taking it as a point of departure for developing his work beyond its present level of achievement.
Democracy and Vision thus records Wolin's unique contribution while charting new territory that his work's continuing influence will shape in important ways. A book indispensable for those who seek to be engaged by the leading arguments in contemporary political theory."
—Morton Schoolman, State University of New York at Albany"
Democracy and Vision is valuable because it relates developments in late-modern life and politics to the 'vicissitudes' of theorizing. This is a splendid commentary on the current condition and character of political theory as an endeavor, partly by displaying and relating its many voices and tensions, and partly by showing how these voices reverberate in other fields of inquiry."
—George Shulman, New York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledegments vii 1. Politics and Vision by William E. Connolly 3 PART I: DEMOCRATIC ENERGY AND INSTITUTIONAL by DEFINITION 2. Momentary Democracy by Nicholas Xenos 25 3. Wolin as a Critic of Democracy by George Kateb 39 4. Beyond Fugitive Democracy: Some Modern and by Postmodern Reflections by Fred Dalimayr 58 5. A Tension in Modern Democracy by Charles Taylor 79 PART II CAPITALISM, DIFFERENCE, AND DEMOCRACY 6. Reflections on Tolerance in the Age of Identity by Wendy Brown 99 7. Wolin and Oakeshott: Similarity in Difference by Aryeb Botwinick 118 8. Political Capitalism and the Consumption of Democracy by Melissa A. Orlie 138 9. Evening Land by Anne Norton 161 PART III: TIME AND COSMOPOLITANISM 10. Three Conceptions of the Political: The Real World by of Late Modern Democracy by Stephen K. White 173 11. Between the Castigation of Texts and the Excess of Words: Political Theory in the Margins of Tradition by Kirstie M. McClure 193 12. Time, Disjuncture, and Democratic Citizenship by Michael J. Shapiro 232 13. The Polis, Globalization, and the Politics of Place by J. Peter Euben 256 The Conttibutors 291 Index 293
