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. 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. Acclaimed as a tour de
force when it was first published, and a major scholarly event when
the expanded edition appeared, Politics and Vision will instruct,
inspire, and provoke for generations to come.
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