{"product_id":"fugitive-democracy-9780691133645","title":"Fugitive Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past fifty years. Fugitive Democracy 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"These essays are stunning. No one speaks for democracy as Wolin does.\"\u003cb\u003e—Anne Norton, author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Muslim Question\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This collection is long overdue. \u003ci\u003eFugitive Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that every current and future political theorist and political philosopher should own.\"\u003cb\u003e—Melissa A. Orlie, author of \u003ci\u003eLiving Ethically, Acting Politically\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword vii  Editor's Introduction xiii  Part One THE POLITICAL AND THEORETICAL  Chapter 1 Political Theory as a Vocation 3  Chapter 2 Political Theory: From Vocation to Invocation 33  Part Two HISTORICAL  Ancient and Modern Democracy 51  Chapter 3 Transgression, Equality, and Voice 53  Chapter 4 Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Democracy 77  Chapter 5 Fugitive Democracy 100  Hobbes 115  Chapter 6 Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory 117  Chapter 7 Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism 149  Modern Theorists 171  Chapter 8 On Reading Marx Politically 173  Chapter 9 Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory 195  Part Three RECENT THEORISTS  Chapter 10 Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society 217  Chapter 11 Hannah Arendt: Democracy and the Political 237  Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time 250  Chapter 13 The Liberal\/Democratic Divide: On Rawls's Political Liberalism 260  Part Four POSTMODERNS  Chapter 14 On the Theory and Practice of Power 283  Chapter 15 Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism 300  Chapter 16 Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth 316  Chapter 17 The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism 330  Chapter 18 From Progress to Modernization: The Conservative Turn 348  Part Five REVISIONING DEMOCRACY  Chapter 19 Editorial 363  Chapter 20 What Revolutionary Action Means Today 368  Chapter 21 The People's Two Bodies 379  Chapter 22 The New Public Philosophy 394  Chapter 23 Democracy, Difference, and Re-Cognition 405  Chapter 24 Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power: An Essay of Juxtapositions 421  Chapter 25 Agitated Times 438  Notes 449  Sources 491  Index 493","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403753038167,"sku":"9780691133645","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691133645.jpg?v=1730484443","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fugitive-democracy-9780691133645","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}