Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (770 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0718Z8LPM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 237 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Sheldon S. Wolin (1922-2015) was professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University. His books include Politics and Vision and Tocqueville between Two Worlds (both Princeton)
Herbert L Calhoun said What does A frightened democracy do?. Sheldon S. Wolin, a renown professor of Political Science at both Princeton and Berkeley universities, a scholar who can count among his students, the renown public philosopher, Professor Cornel West, has, for most of his academic career, studied and written extensively and well about the philosophy and mechanisms of poli. Inverted Totalitarianism - Spread the word! I had not read anything by Sheldon Wolin prior to this book, and I picked it up because I was intrigued by what was apparently his own invented phraseology - "inverted totalitarianism." With these two words, Professor Wolin gave a name to something that those of us who pay close attention to global political and economic . Putting It All Together John Baesler At the end of a long, distinguished career as one of America's foremost political philosophers, Sheldon Wolin takes a hard look at the current political system in America and arrives at the profoundly uncomfortable conclusion that America has become a "managed democracy," where the will of the American people is effective
Wolin makes clear that today's America is in no way morally or politically comparable to totalitarian states like Nazi Germany, yet he warns that unchecked economic power risks verging on total power and has its own unnerving pathologies. Wolin examines the myths and mythmaking that justify today's politics, the quest for an ever-expanding economy, and the perverse attractions of an endless war on terror. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has Amer
Building on his fifty years as a political theorist and proponent of radical democracy, Wolin here extends his concern with the extinguishing of the political and its replacement by fraudulent simulations of democratic process."--Jonathan Crary, Artforum"We need to understand the deep roots of our present troubles ourselves and Wolin's book is an excellent beginning."--Toby Grace, Out in Jersey"Democracy Incorporated acts as an antidote to unconstrained corporate power and an elitist obsession and should be widely read by all those who cherish democracy and civil liberty."--Shih-Yu Chou, Political Studies Review"Wolin provides a rich narrative of the struggle of elites and the demos from ancient Greece through the writing of the U.S. Winner of