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. This new edition retains
intact the original ten chapters about political thinkers from
Plato to Mill, and adds seven chapters about theorists from Marx
and Nietzsche to Rawls and the postmodernists. 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 new edition, the book that
helped to define political theory in the late twentieth century
should energize, enlighten, and provoke generations of scholars to
come.
Wolin originally wrote "Politics and Vision" to challenge the
idea that political analysis should consist simply of the neutral
observation of objective reality. He argues that political thinkers
must also rely on creative vision. Wolin shows that great theorists
have been driven to shape politics to some vision of the Good that
lies outside the existing political order. As he tells it, the
history of theory is thus, in part, the story of changing
assumptions about the Good.
In the new chapters, Wolin displays all the energy and flair,
the command of detail and of grand historical developments, that he
brought to this story forty years ago. This is a work of immense
talent and intense thought, an intellectual achievement that will
endure.
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