Politics and Vision by Wolin, Sheldon S. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition Preface to the 2004 Expanded Edition Preface Part One

Chapter One: Political Philosophy and Philosophy

I Political Philosophy as a Form of Inquiry II Form and Substance III Political Thought and Political Institutions IV Political Philosophy and the Political V The Vocabulary of Political Philosophy VI Vision and Political Imagination VII Political Concepts and Political Phenomena VIII A Tradition of Discourse IX Tradition and Innovation

Chapter Two: Plato: Political Philosophy versus Politics

I The Invention of Political Philosophy II Philosophy and Society III Politics and Architectonics IV The Search for a Selfless Instrument V The Question of Power VI Political Knowledge and Political Participation VII The Limits of Unity VIII The Ambiguities of Plato

Chapter Three: The Age of Empire: Space and Community

I The Crisis in the Political II The New Dimensions of Space III Citizenship and Disengagement IV Politics and the Roman Republic V The Politics of Interest VI From Political Association to Power Organization VII The Decline of Political Philosophy

Chapter Four: The Early Christian Era: Time and Community

I The Political Element in Early Christianity: The New Notion of Community II The Church as a Polity: The Challenge to the Political Order III Politics and Power in a Church-Society IV The Embarrassments of a Politicized Religion and the Task of Augustine V The Identity of the Church-Society Reasserted: Time and Destiny VI Political Society and Church-Society VII The Language of Religion and the Language of Politics: Footnote on Mediaeval Christian Thought

Chapter Five: Luther: The Theological and the Political

I Political Theology II The Political Element in Luther’s Thought III The Bias against Institutions IV The Status of the Political Order V The Political Order without Counterweight VI The Fruits of Simplicity

Chapter Six: Calvin: The Political Education of Protestantism

I The Crisis in Order and Civility II The Political Quality of Calvin’s Thought III The Political Theory of Church Government IV The Restoration of the Political Order V Political Knowledge VI Political Office VII Power and Community

Chapter Seven: Machiavelli: Politics and the Economy of Violence

I The Autonomy of Political Theory II The Commitments of the Political Theorist III The Nature of Politics and the Categories of the New Science IV Political Space and Political Action V The Economy of Violence VI Ethics: Political and Private VII The Discovery of the Mass VIII Politics and Souls

Chapter Eight: Hobbes: Political Society as a System of Rules

I The Revival of Political Creativity II Political Philosophy and the Revolution in Science III The Promise of Political Philosophy IV The Language of Politics: The Problem of Constituency V Political Entropy: The State of Nature VI The Sovereign Definer VII Power without Community VIII Interests and Representation IX Politics as a Field of Forces

Chapter Nine: Liberalism and the Decline of Political Philosophy

I The Political and the Social II Liberalism and the Sobrieties of Philosophy III The Political Claims of Economic Theory IV The Eclipse of Political Authority: The Discovery of Society V Society and Government: Spontaneity versus Coercion VI Liberalism and Anxiety VII Beyond the Pleasure Principle: The Problem of Pain VIII Liberalism and Moral Judgments: The Substitution of Interest for Conscience IX Liberalism and Conformity: The Socialized Conscience

Chapter Ten: The Age of Organization and the Sublimation of Politics

I The Age of Organization II Identifying a Tradition of Discourse III Organization and Community IV Rousseau: The Idea of Community V Freedom and Impersonal Dependence VI Saint-Simon: The Idea of Organization VII Organization Theory and Methodology: Some Parallels VIII Organization, Method, and Constitutional Theory IX Communal Values in Organization X The Attack on Economic Rationalism XI Organization Theory: Rationalism versus Organicism XII The Attack on the Political XIII Elite and Mass: Action in the Age of Organization XIV Concluding Remarks

Part Two

Chapter Eleven: From Modern to Postmodern Power

I Celebrating the Death of the Past II The Baconian Vision of Power III Cultivating Mind and Method IV Modern Power Realized V Modern Power and Its Constituent Elements VI Containing Power

Chapter Twelve: Marx: Theorist of the Political Economy of the Proletariat or of Uncollapsed Capitalism?

I Marx and Nietzsche: Economy or Culture? II Marx and the Theoretical Vocation III Marx and the Idea of a Political Economy IV Working through the Idea of Democracy V The Power of Theory VI The Politics of Economy: The 1844 Manuscripts VII The Historical Origins of Power VIII Power, Force, and Violence IX Modern Power Revealed X Marx and Locke: Parallel Narratives XI The Alienation of Power XII The Worker as Political Actor XIII Capitalism and the Political Shaping of the Working Class XIV Capital: Contradiction and Crisis XV Inheriting the Power-System of Capital XVI The Status of Politics XVII The Question of Dictatorship XVIII The Paris Commune XIX Anticipating the End of Politics XX Defending a Post-politics XXI Underestimating the Capitalist

Chapter Thirteen: Nietzsche: Pretotalitarian, Postmodern

I From Economy to Culture II “Some are born posthumously” III The New Nietzsche IV Totalitarianism as a Form V Nietzsche: A Political Theorist? VI The Theorist as Immoralist VII The Politics of Critical Totalitarianism VIII The Extraordinary versus the Normal IX The Totalitarian Dynamic X The Extermination of Decadence XI Cultural Wars XII The Crisis of Nihilism XIII The Aesthete and the Herd XIV The Politics of Culture XV A New Elite XVI The Theorist of Anti-theory XVII Rediscovering Myth XVIII The Making of the Herd XIX Myth and Theory XX Looking for a New Dionysius XXI Nietzsche as Political Analyst XXII The Will-to-Power in the Twentieth Century

Chapter Fourteen: Liberalism and the Politics of Rationalism

I Popper, Dewey, and Rawls: Playing Out Liberalism II The Closed Society III The Open Society IV Hints of an Emerging Ambiguity V Dewey: The Philosopher as Political Theorist VI Bacon Redivivus VII Educating for Power VIII Democracy’s Means: Education IX Democracy and Economy X The Contest over Science XI The Idea of a Public XII Great Society and Great Community XIII The Scientific Community as Model Democracy XIV The Fading Aura of Science XV Totalitarianism and Technology XVI Totalitarianism and the Reaction against Democracy XVII Democratic Revival?

Chapter Fifteen: Liberal Justice and Political Democracy

I Liberalism on the Defensive II Freedom and Equality: Liberal Dilemma III John Rawls and the Revival of Political Philosophy IV Economy and Political Economy V Justice and Inequality VI The “Original Position” and the Tradition of Contract Theory VII Liberalism and Its Political VIII Rawls’s Genealogy of Liberalism IX The Reasonableness of Liberalism X The Threat of Comprehensive Doctrines XI Liberal Political Culture XII Liberalism and Governance XIII Neo-liberalism in the Cold War

Chapter Sixteen: Power and Forms

I Old and New Political Forms II Superpower and Terror III Modern and Postmodern Power IV Political Economy: The New Public Philosophy V Collapsed Communism and Uncollapsed Capitalism VI Political Economy and Postmodernism VII The Political and Its Absent Carrier VIII The Demythologizing of Science IX Rational Political Science X Political Science and the Political Establishment XI The Odyssey of the State: From Welfare to Superpower XII Faltering Vision XIII Towards Totality

Chapter Seventeen: Postmodern Democracy: Virtual or Fugitive?

I Postmodern Culture and Postmodern Power II Nietzschean Pessimism Transformed III The Self as Microcosm IV Centrifugals and Centripetals V Centripetal Power VI The Political Evolution of the Corporation VII Empire and the Imperial Citizen VIII Superpower and Inverted Totalitarianism IX The Limits of Superpower? X A Land of Political Opportunity XI Capital and Democracy XII Democracy at Bay XIII Postrepresentative Politics XIV Fugitive Democracy

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