Ebook: Fugitive democracy and other essays

Sheldon Wolin was one of the most influential and original political thinkers of the past 50 years. 'Fugitive Democracy' brings together his most important writings, from classic essays such as 'Political Theory as a Vocation, ' written amid the Cold War and the conflict in Vietnam, to his late radical essays on American democracy such as 'Fugitive Democracy, ' in which he offers a controversial reinterpretation of democracy as an episodic phenomenon distinct from the routinised political management that passes for democracy today.;Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Foreword; Editor's Introduction; PART ONE THE POLITICAL AND THEORETICAL; Chapter 1 Political Theory as a Vocation; Chapter 2 Political Theory: From Vocation to Invocation; PART TWO HISTORICAL; Ancient and Modern Democracy; Chapter 3 Transgression, Equality, and Voice; Chapter 4 Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Democracy; Chapter 5 Fugitive Democracy; Hobbes; Chapter 6 Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory; Chapter 7 Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism; Modern Theorists; Chapter 8 On Reading Marx Politically