Politics and vision - Sheldon S. Wolin
continuity and innovation in Western political thought
KORTE INHOUD
"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 ... 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 th...
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2004Uitgever: Princeton University Press761 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691119775ISBN-13: 9780691119779Koop dit boek tweedehands
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(XXI) 761 p. Hardcover with dustjacket (Fine copy.) Princeton-Oxford, Princeton University Press. 2004 [Auteur: Wolin, Sheldon S.] [Jaar: 2004] [Titel: Politics and Vision. Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought]
