Democracy and Vision: Sheldon Wolin and the Vicissitudes of the Political

Acknowledegments vii 1. Politics and Vision by William E. Connolly 3 PART I: DEMOCRATIC ENERGY AND INSTITUTIONAL by DEFINITION 2. Momentary Democracy by Nicholas Xenos 25 3. Wolin as a Critic of Democracy by George Kateb 39 4. Beyond Fugitive Democracy: Some Modern and by Postmodern Reflections by Fred Dalimayr 58 5. A Tension in Modern Democracy by Charles Taylor 79 PART II CAPITALISM, DIFFERENCE, AND DEMOCRACY 6. Reflections on Tolerance in the Age of Identity by Wendy Brown 99 7. Wolin and Oakeshott: Similarity in Difference by Aryeb Botwinick 118 8. Political Capitalism and the Consumption of Democracy by Melissa A. Orlie 138 9. Evening Land by Anne Norton 161 PART III: TIME AND COSMOPOLITANISM 10. Three Conceptions of the Political: The Real World by of Late Modern Democracy by Stephen K. White 173 11. Between the Castigation of Texts and the Excess of Words: Political Theory in the Margins of Tradition by Kirstie M. McClure 193 12. Time, Disjuncture, and Democratic Citizenship by Michael J. Shapiro 232 13. The Polis, Globalization, and the Politics of Place by J. Peter Euben 256 The Conttibutors 291 Index 293