Sheldon Wolin
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sheldon Sanford Wolin was an American political theorist and writer on contemporary politics. A political theorist for fifty years, Wolin became Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, where he taught from 1973 to 1987.
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- Democracy incorporated : managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism (2008) (406)
- Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought (1960) (361)
- Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought. (1962) (340)
- Political Theory as a Vocation (1969) (269)
- Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life (2001) (162)
- Fugitive Democracy (2016) (140)
- The presence of the past : essays on the state and the Constitution (1990) (123)
- Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought - Expanded Edition (2016) (63)
- Max Weber: Legitimation, Method, and the Politics of Theory (1981) (56)
- The Berkeley student revolt: facts and interpretations (1965) (50)
- The Berkeley Student Revolt. (1966) (48)
- Books in Review (1996) (47)
- I. Democracy and the Welfare State (1987) (43)
- The presence of the past (1989) (37)
- Hume and Conservatism (1954) (35)
- Tocqueville between Two Worlds (2017) (35)
- Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics: A Critique (1963) (34)
- Democracy, Difference, and Re-cognition (1993) (33)
- Contract and Birthright (1986) (25)
- Violence and the western political tradition. (1963) (25)
- The Politics of the Study of Revolution (1973) (23)
- Democracy: Electoral and Athenian (1993) (21)
- Chapter 11. Hannah Arendt: Democracy and the Political (2018) (14)
- Chapter 4. Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Democracy (2016) (13)
- Chapter 6. Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory (2016) (11)
- WHAT REVOLUTIONARY ACTION MEANS TODAY (2018) (11)
- HOBBES AND THE CULTURE OF DESPOTISM (2018) (10)
- Chapter 13. The Liberal/Democratic Divide: On Rawls’s Political Liberalism (2016) (9)
- HANNAH ARENDT AND THE ORDINANCE OF TIME (2018) (8)
- Calvin and the Reformation: The Political Education of Protestantism (1957) (8)
- What Time Is It? (1991) (7)
- THE NEW PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY (2018) (7)
- Richard Hooker and English Conservatism (1953) (7)
- Chapter 2. Political Theory: From Vocation to Invocation (2016) (7)
- Politics and Religion: Luther's Simplistic Imperative (1956) (7)
- The Liberal/Democratic Divide (2018) (6)
- THE PEOPLE’S TWO BODIES (2018) (6)
- TRANSGRESSION, EQUALITY, AND VOICE (2018) (6)
- IV. The Politics of Self-Disclosure (1976) (4)
- Norm and Form (2018) (4)
- The American Pluralist Conception of Politics (1981) (4)
- 7. Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society (2019) (4)
- Agitated Times (2005) (4)
- The Crisis and Beyond: Thinking Outside the Box (2009) (3)
- Political Theory and Political Commentary (1980) (3)
- ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF POWER (2018) (3)
- 1. Norm and Form: The Constitutionalizing of Democracy (2019) (3)
- Executive Liberation: Review of Harvey C. Mansfield Jr., Taming the Prince: The Ambivalence of Executive Power. New York: Free Press,1989. 358 + xxivpp. (1992) (2)
- DEMOCRACY IN THE DISCOURSE OF POSTMODERNISM (2018) (2)
- Chapter 18. From Progress to Modernization: The Conservative Turn (2016) (2)
- POSTMODERN POLITICS AND THE ABSENCE OF MYTH (2018) (2)
- Chapter 8. On Reading Marx Politically (2016) (1)
- ON READING MARX POLITICALLY (2018) (1)
- THE DESTRUCTIVE SIXTIES AND POSTMODERN CONSERVATISM (2018) (1)
- Archaism and Modernity (1986) (1)
- Brave New World (2001) (1)
- Chapter 21. The People’s Two Bodies (2016) (0)
- Chapter VI: “ . . . the theory of what is great” (2009) (0)
- The Post-Modernity of American Politics and Theory (1988) (0)
- Chapter XX: The Penitentiary Temptation (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews : Why Dictators? The Causes and Forms of Tyrannical Rule since 600 B.C. By GEORGE W. F. HALLGARTEN. (New York: The Macmillan Company. 1954. Pp. xiii, 370. $5.50.) (1955) (0)
- THE DYNAMICS OF CONCEPTUAL CHANGE (2009) (0)
- Chapter V: Doubt and Disconnection (2009) (0)
- Book Reviews : Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics. By GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1952. Pp. x, 260. $3.75.) (1955) (0)
- Chapter XXV: The Old Regime: Modernization and the Politics of Loss (2009) (0)
- Chapter 14. On the Theory and Practice of Power (2018) (0)
- Defending California: Richard Rorty’s Virtue Liberalism (2015) (0)
- Political Studies Books (2002) (0)
- Chapter 16. Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth (2016) (0)
- AFTER UTOPIA. THE DECLINE OF POLITICAL FAITH. By Judith N. Shklar. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Pp. x, 309. $5.00. (1960) (0)
- Chapter VII: Myth and Political Impressionism (2009) (0)
- Chapter XXII: Souvenirs: Recollections In/Tranquillity (2009) (0)
- Chapter XIII: Centralization and Dissolution (2009) (0)
- Post-Genocidal Cultural Narratives: Understanding Evil from Kant to Arendt (2011) (0)
- Chapter XI: Feudal America (2009) (0)
- [no title] (1970) (0)
- Chapter III: Discovering Democracy (2009) (0)
- Chapter 1. Political Theory as a Vocation (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews: American Politics (1988) (0)
- Book Reviews : Political Thought in England: Tyndale to Hooker. By CHRISTOPHER MORRIS. (London: Oxford University Press. 1953. Pp. x, 220. $2.00.) (1954) (0)
- Chapter XVIII: Old New World, New Old World (2009) (0)
- Chapter 15. Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism (2016) (0)
- From Progress to Modernization (2018) (0)
- Chapter 24. Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power: An Essay of Juxtapositions (2016) (0)
- Chapter I: Modern Theory and Modern Power (2009) (0)
- Chapter 17. The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism (2016) (0)
- Chapter IV: Self and Structure (2009) (0)
- Chapter X: The Culture of the Political: “the rituals of practice” (2009) (0)
- Chapter XXVI: Postdemocracy (2009) (0)
- Chapter 7. Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism (2016) (0)
- ラディカル・デモクラシ-の可能性 (1989) (0)
- Chapter XVII: Despotism and Utopia (2009) (0)
- Chapter XXIV: The Old Regime and the Revolution: Mythistoricus et theoreticus (2009) (0)
- Chapter XIX: Tocquevillean Democracy (2009) (0)
- Chapter 5. Fugitive Democracy (2016) (0)
- Chapter 25. Agitated Times (2016) (0)
- Book Reviews : Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics. By GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1952. Pp. x, 260. $3.75.) (1955) (0)
- [no title] (1970) (0)
- Chapter 20. What Revolutionary Action Means Today (2018) (0)
- Chapter XIV: The Image of Democracy (2009) (0)
- Chapter 12. Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time (2018) (0)
- Chapter XII: Majority Rule or Majority Politics (2009) (0)
- Chapter XXI: The Political Education of the Bourgeoisie (2009) (0)
- Chapter XV: Tragic Hero, Popular Mask (2009) (0)
- Chapter 19. Editorial (2016) (0)
- Voltaire and the State. By Constance Rowe. (New York: Columbia University Press. 1955. Pp. xi, 254. $4.00.) (1956) (0)
- Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power (2018) (0)
- Chapter XXIII: Souvenirs: Socialism and the Crisis of the Political (2009) (0)
- RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY America ' s Civil Religion (2015) (0)
- Ascribing to the discipline of political science a disengagement from “sus- (2022) (0)
- Chapter XVI: The Democratization of Culture (2009) (0)
- Chapter II: Theoria: The Theoretical Journey (2009) (0)
- Wolin, Sundquist, Wood Receive APSA Awards (1985) (0)
- Chapter 3. Transgression, Equality, and Voice (2016) (0)
- Chapter VIII: The Spectacle of America (2009) (0)
- Letters (1981) (0)
- Book Reviews : The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History. By ISAIAH BERLIN. (New York: Simon & Schuster. 1953. Pp. 86. $2.50.) (1954) (0)
- ITS DISCONTENTS From Progress to · Modernization : The Conservative Turn (2015) (0)
- Chapter 23. Democracy, Difference, and Re- Cognition (2016) (0)
- Chapter 22. The New Public Philosophy (2016) (0)
- 100th APSA Annual Meeting Attendees Offer Evaluations and Suggestions (2005) (0)
- Democracy: The Politicizing of Society (2019) (0)
- Reason in Exile (2018) (0)
- Chapter 10. Reason in Exile: Critical Theory and Technological Society (2016) (0)
- Chapter IX: Social Contract versus Political Culture (2009) (0)
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