Sheldon Wolin
Sheldon Wolin | |
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| Born | Sheldon Sanford Wolin August 4, 1922 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | October 21, 2015 (aged 93) Salem, Oregon, U.S. |
| Spouse | Emily Purvis |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College, Harvard University |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Continental philosophy | |
| Institutions | Princeton University |
Doctoral students | Cornel West |
Main interests | Democracy, political philosophy |
Notable ideas | Inverted totalitarianism |
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alma_mater which should be merged into education.Sheldon Sanford Wolin (/ˈwoʊlɪn/; August 4, 1922 – October 21, 2015) was an American political theorist and writer on contemporary politics. A political theorist for fifty years, Wolin became Professor of Politics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, where he taught from 1973 to 1987.
During a teaching career which spanned more than forty years, Wolin also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Cruz, Oberlin College, Oxford University, Cornell University, and University of California, Los Angeles. He was a notable teacher of undergraduate and particularly graduate students, serving as a mentor to many students who themselves became prominent scholars and teachers of political theory.