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POLITICS AND VISION - SHELDON S WOLIN KARTONIER...

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

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