Envisioning Democracy: New Essays after Sheldon Wolin’s Political Thought

Introduction

Section 1: Wolin and Democratic Theory – Ancient Roots, Modern Issues

1. Interpreting Democracy in Undemocratic Societies
John R. Wallach

2. Aristotle on Enmity: Ideology, Somatic Justice, and Emotions
Ingrid Creppell

3. Sheldon Wolin and Democratic “Theory”
Jason Frank

Section 2: Memory and Myth in Wolin and Beyond

4. Wolin on Myth: A Critique
Terence Ball

5. Social Amnesia in Canada’s TRC: Sheldon Wolin, Radical Indigenous Thought, and the Settler-Colonial Politics of Reconciliation
Calvin L. Lincez

Section 3: Democracy and Political Education: Wolin and Contemporary Interlocutors

6. Realistic Political Education
Stephen Esquith

7. Wolin and Said on Political Education, Vision, and Intellectual Tradition
Lucy Cane

Section 4: Thinking with and beyond Wolin – Current Democratic Practices and Issues

8. Democracy between Reactionary Tribalism and the Megastate
Iain Webb

9. The Historical Fate of Fugitive Democracy Today
Terry Maley

10. Transformative Sanctuary: Rethinking Fugitive Democracy and Black Fugitivity with Frontline Communities in the Underground Railroad
Romand Coles and Lia Haro

11. Visioning Limits or Unlimited Vision? The Vocation of Political Theory in the Anthropocene
Andrew Biro