- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Editor’s Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Political Theory as a Vocation -
Chapter 2 Political Theory -
Chapter 3 Transgression, Equality, and Voice -
Chapter 4 Norm and Form -
Chapter 5 Fugitive Democracy -
Chapter 6 Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory -
Chapter 7 Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism -
Chapter 8 On Reading Marx Politically -
Chapter 9 Max Weber -
Chapter 10 Reason in Exile -
Chapter 11 Hannah Arendt -
Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time -
Chapter 13 The Liberal/Democratic Divide -
Chapter 14 On the Theory and Practice of Power -
Chapter 15 Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism -
Chapter 16 Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth -
Chapter 17 The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism -
Chapter 18 From Progress to Modernization -
Chapter 19 Editorial -
Chapter 20 What Revolutionary Action Means Today -
Chapter 21 The People’s Two Bodies -
Chapter 22 The New Public Philosophy -
Chapter 23 Democracy, Difference, and Re-Cognition -
Chapter 24 Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power -
Chapter 25 Agitated Times - Sources
- Index
From Progress to Modernization
From Progress to Modernization
- Chapter:
- (p.348) Chapter 18 From Progress to Modernization
- Source:
- Fugitive Democracy
- Author(s):
Sheldon S. Wolin
, Nicholas Xenos- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
Since the beginning of its modern history, the idea of progress functioned as a political critique directed against the power-wielding institutions of monarchy, aristocracy, and church. Progress quickly became the personal property of liberalism, even though there was no necessary connection between the two. Just as “left” and “progressive” became virtually interchangeable terms, so “conservative” and “antiprogressive” were widely regarded as synonymous. This chapter suggests that these historical identities are now in a process of realignment. The left's historic monopoly on change is being successfully challenged and conservatism is emerging as the party of progress. These shifts signal that a profound change is taking place in the meaning of progress.
Keywords: political theory, liberalism, conservatism, progress, liberals, conservatives
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Editor’s Introduction
-
Chapter 1 Political Theory as a Vocation -
Chapter 2 Political Theory -
Chapter 3 Transgression, Equality, and Voice -
Chapter 4 Norm and Form -
Chapter 5 Fugitive Democracy -
Chapter 6 Hobbes and the Epic Tradition of Political Theory -
Chapter 7 Hobbes and the Culture of Despotism -
Chapter 8 On Reading Marx Politically -
Chapter 9 Max Weber -
Chapter 10 Reason in Exile -
Chapter 11 Hannah Arendt -
Chapter 12 Hannah Arendt and the Ordinance of Time -
Chapter 13 The Liberal/Democratic Divide -
Chapter 14 On the Theory and Practice of Power -
Chapter 15 Democracy in the Discourse of Postmodernism -
Chapter 16 Postmodern Politics and the Absence of Myth -
Chapter 17 The Destructive Sixties and Postmodern Conservatism -
Chapter 18 From Progress to Modernization -
Chapter 19 Editorial -
Chapter 20 What Revolutionary Action Means Today -
Chapter 21 The People’s Two Bodies -
Chapter 22 The New Public Philosophy -
Chapter 23 Democracy, Difference, and Re-Cognition -
Chapter 24 Constitutional Order, Revolutionary Violence, and Modern Power -
Chapter 25 Agitated Times - Sources
- Index
