Chapter 2 Further Reading

Arendt, Hannah (2018) The Human Condition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Develops Arendt’s theory of political action through her account of political agency.

Cane, Lucy (2020) Sheldon Wolin and Democracy: Seeing Through Loss. Milton Park: Routledge. This is one of the first books to focus exclusively on Wolin’s work on politics and offers both an in-depth view of the work across a broad scope of his thinking.

Cane, Lucy (2015) Sheldon Wolin, Politics and Vision. In: Levy, Jacob T. (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press. The chapter focuses on Wolin’s seminal book, Politics and Vision, to elucidate his theorizing of the political.

Frank, Jason and John Tambornino (eds.) (2000) Vocations of Political Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. This book provides critical insights from a range of scholars on the relationship between theory and thinking politically on one hand and political action on the other.

Frank, Jason (2010) Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. Demonstrates the role of moments of rupture with the status quo and the power of disruptive politics to enact transformative change. This book takes a historical perspective to demonstrate political theory.