Michel Foucault兩本未出版的書將在他百年誕辰問市 ◎Jean-Louis Jeannelle
Michel Foucault的兩部未刊著作同時問世，兩者雖因寫作時期與形式各異而風貌有別，卻同樣令人著迷。第一部《人在現代西方思想中的位置》，是1966至1967年間他在突尼斯大學授課的講稿筆記。第二部《兒童十字軍》，是一部手稿，主題是整個十八世紀延續至十九世紀中期那場激烈的反手淫運動：Foucault最初打算將它作為其《性史》的第三卷（第一卷《知識的意志》已於1976年出版），但他最終選擇回溯更遠的時代——先是希臘，再是羅馬。
《人在現代西方思想中的位置》有其特殊的背景：1966年4月，他的文集《詞與物》出版，在哲學界引發了一場爭論，這部著作正是在那個時刻誕生的。憑藉這部哲學暢銷書，Foucault深深震撼了思想界：他在書末寫道，「人」是一個晚近的發明，其消亡似乎已近在眼前，「如同海邊沙灘上的一張臉」。Jean-Paul Sartre——意識、自由與歷史的旗手——被直接點名。Foucault方面，則以人類學家Claude Lévi-Strauss（他本人在1962年也曾向Sartre發難）、精神分析師Jacques Lacan、符號學家Roland Barthes等人為盟友……一言以蔽之，正是當時凱歌高奏的「結構主義」思潮的主要代表人物。
將近五個月後，Foucault身在突尼斯。他在那裡所教授的課程，讓他得以闡明「人」這一形象如何失去了其原本所佔據的「位置」的種種條件。這是一項雄心勃勃的計畫：試圖呈現，隨著末世神話——尤其是上帝——的崩潰，人如何成為了自身的計畫。同時也試圖呈現，西方文化如何走向普遍化，攜帶著一種關於人類存在的普遍化概念——而這種普遍化，尤其以殖民化與去殖民化為媒介，兩者不過是同一過程的兩面。
性的私有化
然而，社會科學——儘管本身誕生於人文主義的旗幟之下（人文主義是一個廣泛的思想流派，以人為目的與最高價值）——已然反過來對抗其守護神：以開場登台的語言學為首，它們揭示出，語言文字與事物並無直接關係；語詞的意義來自其在語言系統內部的位置與對立關係。由此，所有的社會科學逐漸轉向，發掘隱藏在人類主體之下的各種「結構」：拉康式的「如語言般結構的」無意識，Lévi-Strauss的「親屬關係的基本結構」，Althusser所論的意識形態「想像結構」……
其中一個段落尤為引人矚目。Foucault在其中指出，「私生活不是人的秘密，不是他最內在的部分」，而是「一種在制度與文化上被決定的功能」。一切跡象都表明，確實發生了一次性的私有化，性逐漸落入秘密的管轄之下。然而這並不意味著一種藏匿於秘密之中的狀態，恰恰相反，它意味著一種強制：觀察性的強制，談論它的強制，追蹤它以便治療或懲罰的強制。從何時開始？從不再享受性快樂，而是把它作為謎題和問題加以認識的那一刻起。
恐怖的圖景
《兒童十字軍》正座落於此處，是Foucault對他所稱的「手淫學」（l'onanistique）——一種關於「手淫」（onanism）的偽科學，而非關於自慰——的一次調查研究；後者是任何人均可自行享受的快樂。手淫是圍繞著兒童聚集起來的各種機構——父母、教育者或醫生——所分析、追蹤與治療的那種實踐。這種執念在整個十八世紀逐漸成形，尤以瑞士醫生Samuel Auguste Tissot那部（聲名狼藉的）著名論著《手淫論》（1766年）為代表。
人們從中發現，手淫在那個時代已成為一種兒童的實踐。正是在兒童的身體上，在他們的日常習慣中，最細微的手淫跡象都受到追查：這裡不存在成年人，或者說，成年人頂多是更年輕時養成的「致命」習慣的受害者。獨自的快樂留下了無數痕跡，從最細微的（臉紅或慵懶）直至Tissot所呈現的那幅恐怖圖景——一個積習難改的手淫者，一位鐘錶匠，被描述為「一具倒在稻草上的屍體，消瘦、蒼白、骯髒，散發著惡臭，幾乎無力做任何動作」——幾週後，這個年輕人離世，「全身水腫」。
症狀的描述相當重要：這些症狀提供了一種致病因果關係的證明，必須盡早加以識別以便根除。《兒童十字軍》以醫生和教育者所制訂的各種程序作結：從觀察（透過改造寢室的佈局）或突擊（突然掀開兒童的被子以查驗其雙手的活動），到各種器具（繃帶、束腹、緊身衣……）及手術，如陰莖環或陰蒂切除術。
其中的悖論是顯而易見的：在那個時代，醫生們並非不知道自慰是世界上最普遍存在的事物。那麼為何要在兒童中追蹤它？原因在於，這種壓抑——源源不斷地催生著各式話語（醫生的警告、手淫者的「告白」、教育者的訓誡……）——反而刺激了它聲稱要矯正的快樂，製造了新的、更險惡也更虐待性的快樂，但尤為重要的是，它賦予了成年人一種權力，這種權力不能簡單地歸結為權威，而是以更複雜的方式展開，在快樂、知識與權力的交匯之處——這正是Michel Foucault真正的研究對象。
閱讀與聆聽Foucault
2015年，Foucault獲得了「七星文庫」的殊榮。出最近版的是第三卷，這在這套叢書的歷史上堪稱罕見：一部從福柯作品周邊文本中精選而出的選集——序言、訪談、會議演講……均已收入《言與文》兩卷（1994年；「Quarto」版，2001年）。這裡沒有任何作者生前發表過的文本，而是些機緣性的書寫。還有什麼比這更好的方式，來慶祝這位哲學家的智識與文學力量呢？與此同時，另有十六集podcasts的出版——法蘭西學院教授Didier Fassin在其中整理呈現了Foucault在法蘭西學院課程錄音的選段。然而，為何要提供一個書面版本，而其意義本在於讓人聆聽那個聲音？在前一個案例中，文字予以確認；在後一個案例中，文字反而造成了截斷。
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國立臺灣大學出版中心（臺大出版中心）近年針對法國當代哲學巨擘米歇爾·傅柯（Michel Foucault） 的思想，推出了系列學術專著與譯作。這兩者之間的關聯主要聚焦於2026年出版的兩本核心新書，以及由臺灣學者發起、旨在探討與深化傅柯理論的「續寫百年傅柯」學術對談。 [1, 2, 3]
以下為臺大出版中心與傅柯相關的核心出版品與活動整理：
核心出版著作
- 《傅柯哲學──考古學與系譜學》
- 《危險與陌異：傅柯與文學語言論》
學術活動：「續寫百年傅柯新書座談」
配合上述書籍的出版，臺大出版中心 在 2026 年秋季舉辦了系列新書座談會，邀請臺灣多位哲學與當代藝術領域的重量級學者進行對談，並將座談影片完整公開於 臺大出版中心 YouTube 頻道： [1, 2, 3]
總結來說，臺大出版中心透過引進傅柯本人的話語譯作，並結合臺灣本土前沿學術專著，構築出了一個讓中文讀者系統性理解傅柯「權力、知識、主體性」核心哲學的學術平台。
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作品多有漢譯
理查·羅蒂：一位美國哲人的誕生
作者: [美]尼爾·格羅斯
出版社: 華中科技大學出版社
原作名: Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher
譯者: 胡豔紅
頁數: 325
定價: CNY98.0
裝幀: 平裝
叢書: “群學新知”譯叢
ISBN: 9787568083249
內容簡介 · · · · · ·
本書主要分為兩個部分。前八章為第一部分，首先按照時間順序對羅蒂的經歷進行了介紹，包括其父母的生活經歷和羅蒂本人的求學經歷。後兩章為第二部分，從社會學的視角重新審視了羅蒂的思想和職業發展。但與傳統人物傳記不同的是，原作者格羅斯的切入點不是平鋪直敘地描述人物生活軼事，而是更多地著眼於世俗的社會和制度環境，通過對其所生活的環境的描述反襯羅蒂的思想歷程。全書中，作者將重點放在羅蒂職業生涯的前半段，即其思想的發展時期，而非傳播時期。本書的目標不是對羅蒂的思想進行詮釋，也不是對其進行批判性的哲學審視，而是試圖解釋其思想的社會根源，為未來社會學研究提供了方向。
目錄 · · · · · ·
導言//1
第一章 詹姆斯·羅蒂//27
第二章 維妮弗雷德·勞申布赫//59
第三章 哈欽斯學院//79
第四章 哲學碩士（1949—1952）//99
第五章 耶魯的博士生涯（1952—1956）//119
第六章 威爾斯利學院（1958—1961）//139
第七章 普林斯頓大學（1961—1965）//157
第八章 普林斯頓大學（1965—1982）//181
第九章 學者自我概念//223
第十章 重新審視羅蒂//261
結論//311
1969年，米歇爾‧福柯發表題為《何謂作者？ 》的演講時，人工智慧革命還有50多年才到來。但他似乎預感到了它的到來。 「我們可以很容易地想像，在這樣的文化中，話語無需作者即可流通，」他寫道。在這樣的世界裡，寫作「將在普遍的匿名性中展開」。
福柯顯然對這個想法感到興奮。對他而言，語言並非我們用來溝通或表徵世界的中立工具，而是某種更險惡的東西：權力塑造我們思考和行動方式，甚至塑造我們認知範圍的手段。他所謂的「作者功能」是一種服務於戰略性政治目的的法律詭計。它是一種社會控制的手段，一種扼殺意義自由流動的方式，一種將語言追溯到特定個體——「作者」——的手段，從而使這個人能夠因其危險或令人反感的思想而受到追究，甚至懲罰。
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1940年代末，福柯在學校求學時，不僅以才華洋溢聞名，也以傲慢和狡詐著稱。有些同學認為他瘋了。他的綽號是「狐狸」（Fuchs），德語意為「狐狸」。一位傳記作家評論道：“狐狸很聰明，但也很會咬人。”
在那個保守的天主教國家，同性戀者會因為違反公共道德法而受到起訴，而傅柯本人也是同性戀者。他飽受憂鬱症的折磨，曾多次試圖自殺，這促使他的父親帶他去聖安妮精神病院接受評估。 「我感覺和那些病人很親近，並沒有太大的區別，」他後來回憶道。
抵達巴黎高等師範學院後不久，傅柯在與校長面談時坦白了自己的性取向。校長震驚不已。傅柯回憶起當時的對話：“他告訴我，我必須接受改造，我將被隔離，接受一系列權威人士——醫生、教師、心理學家、精神病學家等等——的檢查和治療。那一刻，我瞬間明白了這個體制的運作方式。我感知到了我們社會的根本動力：規範化。: normalization.””
這一理念在他1975年出版的最具影響力的著作《紀律與懲罰》中得到了形象的表達。在令人震驚的開篇，他將一幅殘酷的酷刑和肢解場景——1757年刺殺路易十五國王的男子被公開處決——與一份80年後出版的監獄改革書籍中列出的囚犯日常作息時間表進行了對比。這份時間表將囚犯的一天劃分為工作、學習、娛樂和用餐等時段，所有活動都在典獄長的監視之下。
“What Is an Author?” predicted a future where old ideas about authorship would give way to new questions about technology and power. “What are the modes of existence of this discourse?” Foucault asked. “Where does it come from, how is it circulated” and — perhaps most important — “who controls it?”
《何謂作者？ 》一書預言，未來關於作者身分的舊觀念將被關於科技和權力的新問題所取代。 “這種話語的存在方式是什麼？”傅柯問道，“它從何而來，如何傳播”，以及——或許最為重要的——“誰控制著它？”
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"Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?"
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"Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory. Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris, where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology."
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Born: Paul-Michel Foucault, 15 October 1926, Poitiers, France
Died: June 25, 1984, Paris, France
Education: École Normale Supérieure (B.A, 1948, M.A, 1949), Fondation Thiers (Dr. cand.), University of Paris (B.A, 1949, SpDip, 1952, DrE, 1961)
Notable work: Madness and Civilization (1961), The Birth of the Clinic (1963), The Order of Things (1966), Discipline and Punish (1975), The History of Sexuality (1976)
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Michael Kelly, Michel Foucault (1994). “Critique and Power: Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate”, p.176, MIT Press
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#知識考古學 L’archéologie du savoir
米歇爾．傅柯經典作品
台灣繁中版法文全新重譯
「不要問我我是誰，也不要叫我保持不變：這是一種身分狀態的道德規範（une morale d’état-civil）；它管理著我們的文證。但願關乎書寫之時，它仍任我們自由。」--米歇爾·傅柯
法國思想界大師--米歇爾·傅柯(Michel Foucault)於一九六六年出版《詞與物》（Les mots et les choses. Une archéologie des sciences humaines）一書，提出「人之死」的論點，挑戰自十九、二十世紀以來學術界「以人為本」的理論預設而飽受各方批評，甚至引起沙特批判此書為小資產階級的最後壁壘；傅柯隨後在一九六九年出版了《知識考古學》（L'archéologie du savoir），在書中提出方法論的討論，對話語的基本單元「陳述」進行分析，同時藉由這本書來回應外界早前對《詞與物》的評論或指責。
傅柯在《知識考古學》當中以非連續性、斷裂、差異的考古學反對連續性、起源、總體化的觀念史，通過對話語形成與陳述進行分析，呈現作為主體的「人」和知識在話語實踐中被建構的過程，深入剖析「人之死」的主題，最終建構一種基於「話語實踐—知識—科學」的考古學。
他指出，思想史試圖透過破譯文本來解讀思想的祕密運動，而「所說事物」的層面則以其自身的方式出現：它們出現的條件、它們積累和聯繫的形式、它們轉換的規則、點綴它們的不連續性。所言之物的領域就是我們所說的檔案；考古學之目的，就是對其進行分析。
作者： 米歇爾．#傅柯 Michel Foucault
譯者： 李沅洳
出版社：時報出版
出版日期：2023/10/03
Sheldon S. Wolin, a political theorist whose landmark 1960 book “Politics and Vision” shifted the center of gravity back to politics, rather than economics or sociology, in the field of political science, and who went on to analyze the possibilities and limits of popular democracy in a series of influential studies, died on Oct. 21 at his home in Salem, Ore. He was 93.
His death was confirmed by his daughter Deborah Olmon.
“Politics and Vision,” subtitled “Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought,” appeared at a time when American political science was under the sway of the behavioralist revolution, which emphasized the quantitative analysis of data rather than political ideas as a way to explain political behavior.
Professor Wolin, then teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, galvanized the profession by gathering key political philosophers, beginning with the Greeks, in a grand debate on democracy and examining their ideas not as historical artifacts, but as a way to criticize current political structures.
“The book revitalized political theory by making its history relevant to an analysis of the present,” Nicholas Xenos, a student of Professor Wolin’s and a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, wrote in an email. “It challenged the behavioralists, for whom history was increasingly irrelevant. It also provided a way to criticize the present using the concepts and vocabulary that since antiquity had sustained concern for what he called ‘the possibilities of collectivity, common action and shared purposes.’ ”
In 1985, the American Political Science Association honored the book with the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award in recognition of its lasting impact. It was reissued in expanded form in 2004.
Nearly as influential on the profession was Professor Wolin’s 1969 essay “Political Theory as a Vocation,” a call for political scientists to develop what he called “epic” theories that would change perceptions and, in turn, societies.
With Michael Rogin, Hanna Pitkin and other colleagues, Professor Wolin made Berkeley a leading center for the study of political theory, and the headquarters of what became known as the Berkeley school.
He cast himself and his profession in activist terms, concerned with “the being and well-being of collectives,” as he put it in the introduction to “The Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution” (1989). Political theory, he wrote, “is primarily a civic and secondarily an academic activity.”
Sheldon Sanford Wolin was born on Aug. 4, 1922, in Chicago and grew up in Buffalo. His father, an immigrant from Russia, was a clothing designer who started his own manufacturing business. His mother, for a time, ran a small variety store.
He enrolled in Oberlin College in Ohio but after two years enlisted in the Army Air Forces, serving as a bombardier and navigator in the Pacific before returning to earn a bachelor’s degree in 1946. He did his graduate work at Harvard, where he received his doctorate in 1950, with a dissertation on English constitutional thought in the late 18th century.
Interested in reaching a nonacademic audience, Professor Wolin, in collaboration with his Berkeley colleague John H. Schaar, wrote frequently for The New York Review of Books in the 1960s on the Free Speech Movement and campus unrest at Berkeley.
The essays were included in their book “The Berkeley Rebellion and Beyond: Essays on Politics and Education in the Technological Society” (1970). Professor Wolin later wrote for the review on Watergate, Henry Kissinger, the presidency of Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and American conservatism.
In 1972 he joined the department of politics at Princeton, where he taught until retiring in 1987.
His influence on the profession as a teacher has been enormous. His students include such prominent scholars as Wendy Brown at Berkeley, J. Peter Euben at Duke and Cornel West at Princeton.
Somewhat unusually for a political theorist, Professor Wolin analyzed political thinkers with a literary critic’s ear, bearing down on telling metaphors or revealing stylistic quirks. That gift was evident in “Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory” (1970) and “Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life” (2001), a blend of political theory and intellectual biography.
In 1981 Professor Wolin founded Democracy: A Journal of Political Renewal and Radical Change, which explored the potential for populist movements in the United States. He was its editor until it ceased publication in 1983.
“The left cannot play politics on terms set by mass media and mass organization,” he told The New York Times in 1982. “A more decentralized and local politics, scattered and diffuse, is the first best hope.”
With time, he took the view that corporate power and political power were becoming so closely intertwined in the United States, and the public so apathetic, that genuine participatory democracy was at best a remote possibility, expressed in rare “fugitive” expressions of the popular will.
“Democracy in the late modern world cannot be a complete political system,” he wrote in a 1994 essay, “and given the awesome potentialities of modern forms of power, and what they exact of the social and natural world, it ought not to be hoped or striven for.”
His last book reflected this dark interpretation of politics in the United States. It bore a sobering title: “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism.”
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Sheldon S. Wolin (/ˈwoʊlɪn/; August 4, 1922 – October 21, 2015)[1] was an Americanpolitical theorist and writer on contemporary politics. One of the most original and influential American political theorists of the past fifty years, Wolin became Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, where he taught from 1973 to 1987.[2]...
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[hide]Academic career[edit]
After graduating from Oberlin College, Wolin received his doctorate from Harvard University in 1950, for a dissertation entitledConservatism and Constitutionalism: A Study in English Constitutional Ideas, 1760–1785. After teaching briefly at Oberlin, Wolin taught political theory at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1954 to 1970 and built a political theory program by bringing Norman Jacobson, John H. Schaar, Hanna Fenichal Pitkin, and Michael Rogin into the department.
One of Wolin's central concerns was how the history of political thought could contribute to understand contemporary political dilemmas and predicaments. He played a significant role in the Free Speech Movement and with John Schaar interpreted that movement to the rest of the world. During the seventies and eighties he published frequently for The New York Review of Books.[4] He also wrote opinion pieces and reviews for The New York Times. In 1980, he was the founding editor of the short-lived but intellectually influential journal democracy (1980-83). At Princeton, Wolin led a successful faculty effort to pass a resolution urging university trustees to divest from endowment investment in firms that supported South African apartheid.
Wolin left Berkeley in the fall of 1971 for the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught until 1972. From 1973 through 1987, Wolin was a professor of politics at Princeton University. Wolin served on the editorial boards of many scholarly journals, includingPolitical Theory the leading journal of the field in the Anglo-American world. He consulted for various scholarly presses, foundations and public entities including Peace Corps, American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council. Wolin also served as president of the Society for Legal and Political Philosophy.
Political Theorist[edit]
Wolin was instrumental in founding what came to be known as the Berkeley School of political theory. His approach to the history of political thought offered an original perspective that constituted a formidable challenge to more classical approaches to the study of the history of political thought. It equally challenged Behaviorism, the reigning orthodoxy in political science departments. Frequently compared to thinkers like Eric Voeglin, Hannah Arendt, and Leo Strauss, Wolin’s classic Politics and Vision formulates an interpretative approach to the history of political thought. It combined careful study of different theoretical traditions and paid particular attention to how these contribute to the changing meanings of a received political vocabulary, which included notions of authority, obligation, power, justice, citizenship, and the state. Wolin’s approach also had a bearing on contemporary problems and questions and he notoriously defined the inquiry into the history of political thought, and the study of different traditions and forms of theorizing that have shaped it, “as a form of political education.”[5] Wolin’s approach to the study of political theory consisted of a historical-minded inquiry into the history of political thought to inform the practice of political theory in the present. A consummate reader of texts, he carefully combined attention to both the intellectual and political contexts in which an author intervened and the genres of writing he deployed, with an eye to understanding how a particular body of work shed light on a specific political predicament. [6] But this was no antiquarian exercise. It rather consisted of an attempt to "understand some aspect of the historical past [that] is also conscious of the historical character and locus of [the inquirer's] own understanding. Historicity has to do with the convergence of the two, and the inquirer’s contribution of his present is crucial.”[7] Similarly, his classic essay "Political Theory as a Vocation," written in the context of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement mounted a searching critique of Behaviorism and how it impaired the ability to grasp the crises of the time. Thirty years later, he explicitly formulated the importance of political theory and the study of political thought as “primarily a civic and secondarily an academic activity.” [8] His 2001 study of Alexis de Tocqueville, Tocqueville Between Two Words, constitutes his second summa. Cornel West has called it Wolin’s masterpiece, the crowning achievement of “the greatest political theorist of and for democracy of our time.” [9]
Wolin’s involvement in the events of the sixties represented a formative experience that set the stage for the transition from an imaginative and erudite scholar of political thought to an original political thinker in his own right. [10] In essays dealing with major thinkers of the recent past, including some of the most formidable bodies of work of the twentieth century, Wolin probed different approaches to both understanding the nature of theory and its bearing on the political from a perspective clearly aligned with the principles of participatory democracy. From this perspective, Wolin engaged with a vast array of thinkers: Theodor W. Adorno & Max Horkheimer, Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Michel Foucault, Leo Strauss, Harvey C. Mansfield, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Michael Oakeshott, Karl Popper, John Rawls, Richard Rorty, and Max Weber. [11] Politically, Wolin penned essays on a variety of themes and figures, including terrorism, conservatism, Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, and Ronald Reagan. His The Presence of the Past offered an original critique of Reaganism, its discourse and practice, and a series of searching reflections on the bicentannial of the American Constitution. His last book, Democracy Incorporated (2008) formulates a scathing critique of the administration of George W. Bush and its war on terror and a plea for the recovery of democratic values and practices.
In these interventions, Wolin formulated an original non-Marxist critique of capitalism and the fate of democratic political life in the present. In his effort to think about the fate of democracy in the United States, he formulated a novel theorization of modern and postmodern forms of power and how these shaped the limits and horizons of political life in the late twentieth and early twentieth-first centuries. While influenced by Marx's critique of capitalism as a form of power, Wolin's political thought is decidedly non-Marxist in his insistence on participatory democracy, the primacy of the political, and the conviction that a radical theory of democracy requires mapping the forms of power beyond the economy. Wolin's political thought is particularly concerned with the fate of democracy at the hands of bureaucratic imperatives, elitism, and managerial principles and practices. His ideas of “inverted totalitarianism” and “fugitive democracy” constitute well-known signatures of his reflections. Another signature contribution is his account of the liberal-democratic state, which Wendy Brown has characterized as a "neo-Weberian" account of the state, "heavy with rationalities and bureaucratic domination; it is a Marxist-structuralist state, neither identical with nor a simple instrument of capitalism but complexly entwined with it. It is an administrative and penetrative state - those tentacles are everywhere and on everyone, especially the most disempowered; they do not honor public/private distinctions, political/economic distinctions, or even legal/extra-legal distinctions...the contemporary state is a complex amalgam of political, economic, administrative and discursive powers." [12] Out of this diagnosis of the state and its complex relationship to capitalism, Wolin forged the idea of "fugitive democracy." In his view, democracy not as a fixed state form, but a political experience in which ordinary people are active political actors. In this construction "fugitive" stands for the ways in which contemporary forms of power have made this aspiration an evanescent and momentary political experience. [13]
Personal Life[edit]
Wolin was born in Chicago and raised in Buffalo, New York. Interrupting his studies at Oberlin College, he became a US Army Air Force bombardier/navigator serving in the Pacific during World War II.[14] He was married to Emily Purvis Wolin for over sixty years.
Works[edit]
Books[edit]
- Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought, expanded ed. (1960; Princeton University Press, 2004). ISBN 978-0-691-12627-2
- The Berkeley Student Revolt: Facts and Interpretations, edited with Seymour Martin Lipset (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1965).
- The Berkeley Rebellion and Beyond: Essays on Politics & Education in the Technological Society, with John H. Schaar (Vintage Books/New York Review Books, 1970).
- Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory (William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles: University of California, 1970). (Spanish translation: Hobbes y la tradición épica de la teoría política, Colección Rétor, Madrid: Foro Interno, 2005. ISBN 978-84-933478-1-9)
- Presence of the Past: Essays on the State and the Constitution (1989)
- Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life (Princeton University Press, 2001). ISBN 978-0-691-11454-5
- Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism (Princeton University Press, 2008).ISBN 978-0-691-13566-3 (Trad. esp.: Democracia S. A., Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores S.A, 2008, ISBN 978-84-96859-46-3)
Articles[edit]
- "Inverted Totalitarianism" by Sheldon Wolin Article published in The Nation magazine May 19, 2003
- "A Kind of Fascism Is Replacing Our Democracy" by Sheldon S. Wolin Article published on Friday, July 18, 2003 by Long Island NY Newsday, archived at Common Dreams website
- "Political Theory as a Vocation": The American Political Science Review, Vol. 63, No. 4 (Dec., 1969), pp. 1062-1082. (Spanish translation: "La teoría política como vocación": Foro Interno, vol. 11 (Diciembre, 2011), pp. 193-234).
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