![]() ![]() Those who hadn’t-figures like Judith Shklar, Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin-were lamenting its fading significance. Most of his political science colleagues had by the late 1950s turned toward more quantitative and empirical fields. It wasn’t exactly a good moment to be publishing in the field of political theory. He had written a few academic articles here and there, and an unpublished dissertation on English constitutionalism, but no one was really sure what to expect from his first book. He was thirty-seven and a junior ranking professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Sheldon Wolin published Politics and Vision in the early months of 1960. Wolin pictured in the Daily Princetonian, March 1982 (courtesy Mudd Library, Princeton University) Sheldon Wolin dedicated his career to championing not just a new politics but a new kind of politics-one that refused to substitute top-down administration for the messy uncertainties of democracy. ![]()
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