Reviews
In this book, our foremost theorist of the political moves beyond his classical work to a critique of the state... For Wolin, the past must live through a memory of past injustices and the experience of political action. He quotes Richard Hooker to the effect that five hundred years of acts are ours. In defending the value of political experience, Wolin stays true to his distinctive ground.
The enlightenment so generously supplied by Wolin reveals a grim view of the American Republic in the wake of its Bicentennial celebrations... Clearly this is a very important book, and I recommend it most highly.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Collective Identity and Constitutional Power
Chapter 2. Injustice and Collective Memory
Chapter 3. Eliticsm and the Rage against Postmodernity
Chapter 4. Archaism
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Collective Identity and Constitutional Power
Chapter 2. Injustice and Collective Memory
Chapter 3. Eliticsm and the Rage against Postmodernity
Chapter 4. Archaism, Modernity, and Democracy in America
Chapter 5. Trending and Intending a Constitution: Bicentennial Misgivings
Chapter 6. Montesquieu and Publius: The Crisis of Reason and The Federalist Papers
Chapter 7. E Pluribus Unum: The Representation of Difference and the Reconstitution of Collectivity
Chapter 8. COntract and Birthright
Chapter 9. Democracy and the Welfare State: The Political and Theoretical Connections between Staatsräson and Wohlfahrsstaaträson
Chapter 10. Democracy without the Citizen
Chapter 11. Democracy and Operation Democracy
Notes
Index