Sheldon S. Wolin

Democracy Incorporated, by Sheldon S. Wolin, confronts the unsettling notion that America may have unknowingly transformed into a peculiar political hybrid. This hybrid sees economic and state powers conjoined and almost unchecked. Wolin questions whether the nation has begun its descent into what he terms "inverted totalitarianism." He describes a country where citizens are politically uninterested and complacent, while elites...

Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of one of the greatest works of modern political theory. Sheldon Wolin's Politics and Vision inspired and instructed two generations of political theorists after its appearance in 1960. Substantially expanded for republication in 2004, it is both...