Sheldon S. Wolin (1922–2015)
Auteur de Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
A propos de l'auteur
Sheldon Sanford Wolin was born in Chicago, Illinois on August 4, 1922. During World War II, he served as a bombardier and navigator in the Pacific for the Army Air Forces. He received a bachelor's degree from Oberlin College in 1946 and a doctorate from Harvard University in 1950. He taught at the afficher plus University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University before retiring in 1987. He wrote several books during his lifetime including Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory, Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life, and Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought was published in 1960, received the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award in recognition of its lasting impact in 1985, and was reissued in expanded form in 2004. He also wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books on Watergate, Henry Kissinger, the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and American conservatism. Some of his essays on the Free Speech Movement and campus unrest at Berkeley were included with those written by John H. Schaar in The Berkeley Rebellion and Beyond: Essays on Politics and Education in the Technological Society. He died on October 21, 2015 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Œuvres de Sheldon S. Wolin
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (2008) 354 exemplaires
Tocqueville between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life (2001) 67 exemplaires
The Berkeley rebellion and beyond; essays on politics and education in the technological society (1970) 13 exemplaires
Política y perspectiva. Continuidad e innovación en el pensamiento político occidental (Politica Y Derecho) (Spanish… 1 exemplaire
Democracy: A Journal of Political Renewal and Radical Change Vol 3, No. 3, Summer 1983: Alternatives (1983) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
A World of Ideas : Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our… (1989) — Interviewee — 550 exemplaires
Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern (1996) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy (1994) — Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
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- Date de naissance
- 1922-08-04
- Date de décès
- 2015-10-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Salem, Oregon, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Buffalo, New York, USA
- Études
- Oberlin College
Harvard University (Ph.D.|1950) - Professions
- political scientist
professor (political science)
essayist - Organisations
- New York Review of Books
Princeton University
Democracy: A Journal of Political Renewal nad Radical Change
University of California, Berkeley
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- 6
- Membres
- 844
- Popularité
- #30,296
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 10
- ISBN
- 32
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- 5