5. A Tension in Modern Democracy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. DEMOCRACY AND VISION 1
5. 1. Politics and Vision 3
6. PART I: DEMOCRATIC ENERGY AND INSTITUTIONAL DEFINITION
7. 2. Momentary Democracy 25
8. 3. Wolin as a Critic of Democracy 39
9. 4. Beyond Fugitive Democracy: Some Modern and Postmodern Reflections 58
10. 5. A Tension in Modern Democracy 79
11. PART II: CAPITALISM, DIFFERENCE, AND DEMOCRACY
12. 6. Reflections on Tolerance in the Age of Identity 99
13. 7. Wolin and Oakeshott: Similarity in Difference 118
14. 8. Political Capitalism and the Consumption of Democracy 138
15. 9. Evening Land 161
16. PART III: TIME AND COSMOPOLITANISM
17. 10. Three Conceptions of the Political: The Real World of Late Modern Democracy 173
18. 11. Between the Castigation of Texts and the Excess of Words: Political Theory in the Margins of Tradition 193
19. 12. Time, Disjuncture, and Democratic Citizenship 232
20. 13. The Polis, Globalization, and the Politics of Place 256
21. The Contributors 291
22. Index 293