American democracy faces severe challenges today, as everyday
life gathers pace, national borders become increasingly porous, and
commodity culture becomes more dominant. "Democracy and Vision"
assembles a cast of prominent political theorists to consider the
problems confronting political life by reviewing, assessing, and
expanding on the ideas of one of the most influential political
thinkers of the past forty years, Sheldon Wolin.
The 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. In the first, Nicholas Xenos,
George Kateb, Fred Dallmayr, and Charles Taylor focus, in
particular, on whether mass political participation, sustainable in
times of upheaval as what Wolin aptly termed ''fugitive democracy,
'' can be buoyed by political institutions during periods of
stability. In the second section, Wendy Brown, Aryeh Botwinick,
Melissa A. Orlie, and Anne Norton examine the relevance of Wolin's
ideas to current debates about, for example, social diversity and
the commercialization of culture. In the last, Stephen K. White,
Kirstie M. McClure, Michael J. Shapiro, and J. Peter Euben address
globalization and temporality in relation to Wolin's narrative of
decline, asking, among other things, whether citizenship today must
incorporate a cosmopolitan dimension.
These essays--and an introduction by William Connolly that
lucidly outlines Wolin's thought and the deep uncertainty about
political theory in the 1960s that did much to inspire his
work--offer unprecedented insights into Wolin's lament that
modernity has meant the loss of the political.
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