...A key concept in the later work of Sheldon Wolin is “fugitive democracy.” Wolin argues that, throughout history, democracy has rarely been able to endure through time but instead comes and goes in evanescent, fugitive moments. Much recent work in ecclesiology, especially that of radical orthodoxy...

..., and the consequent disregard for institutions inherent in many theories of radical democracy, I discuss below one influential exponent of the radical democratic disregard for institutional politics and the understanding of democracy solely through the constituent power. Sheldon Wolin’s formulations provide...

... and gender. These theses draw on the writing and political practices of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Sheldon Wolin, the speeches of revolutionaries and the experiences of fugitives. Many of those who have taught me, and those with whom I have worked, have followed Sheldon Wolin in seeing a fugitive...

... of domination, exploitation, expropriation. To make this case I turn to John Dewey, Sheldon Wolin and Cornel West to illustrate the way the everyday patient work of BBCO recasts Dewey’s, Wolin’s, and Wests’s theories of radical democracy. The chapter offers a unique theory of radical democracy that is capacious...

... of violence violence legitimacy republicanism Sheldon Wolin This book started by asking what it takes for the very idea of ‘legitimate violence’ to appear credible. I argued that, nowadays, the idea is widely identified with violence that is ‘economical’ in a certain sense. The thought...

... Connolly, Jacques Ranciére, Claude Lefort, Sheldon Wolin, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and Giorgio Agamben. By examining critically the accounts of democracy advanced by these theorists, the book explores how a more radically conceived theory of democracy might be extended in a more egalitarian...

... meta methodology Aristotle de Beauvoir Simone Dewey John Mills Charles Strong Tracy Wollstonecraft Mary feminist methodology grounded normative theory Sara Ruddick Audre Lorde Sheldon Wolin experience-grounded approach non-ideal theory Third World feminist social criticism When Audre...

... affairs. The chapter's first part presents the works of authors who are in favor of such a view: Hannah Arendt, Claude Lefort, Sheldon Wolin, and Miguel Abensour. The latter part discusses Ètienne Balibar and Jacques Rancière's theories concerning the universalistic aspect of radical democracy...

...This chapter focuses on how two critics—Alvin Gouldner and Sheldon Wolin—engaged with enduring aspects of Selznick's thought and ways of thought. Gouldner attacked what he took to be the unjustifiedly pessimistic character of Selznick's work; Wolin, however, attacked what he saw as its systematic...