Envisioning Democracy : : New Essays after Sheldon Wolin’s Political Thought / / ed. by John R. Wallach, Terry Maley.

Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "democracy." Leaders of large states use "democracy" to designate their nations’ public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political perspectives. In Envisionin...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 b&w figures
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Wolin and Democratic Theory: Ancient Roots, Modern Issues
  • 1 Interpreting Democracy in Undemocratic Societies
  • 2 Aristotle on Enmity: Ideology, Somatic Justice, and Emotions
  • 3 Sheldon Wolin and Democratic “Theory”
  • Section 2: Memory and Myth in Wolin and Beyond
  • 4 Wolin on Myth: A Critique
  • 5 Collective Memory and the Settler-Colonial Politics of Reconciliation in Canada
  • Section 3: Democracy and Political Education: Wolin and Contemporary Interlocutors
  • 6 Realistic Political Education
  • 7 Wolin and Said on Political Education, Vision, and Intellectual Tradition
  • Section 4: Thinking with and beyond Wolin: Current Democratic Practices and Issues
  • 8 Democracy between Reactionary Tribalism and the Megastate – Lessons from Italy and the UK
  • 9 The Fate of Fugitive Democracy Today
  • 10 Transformative Sanctuary: Rethinking Fugitive Democracy and Black Fugitivity with Frontline Communities in the Underground Railroad
  • 11 Visioning Limits or Unlimited Vision? Te Vocation of Political Theory in the Anthropocene
  • Contributors