Politics without Vision: Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century

"Magisterial…a frequently surprising treatment of major political thinkers."—Perspectives on Politics

From Plato through the nineteenth century, the West could draw on comprehensive political visions to guide government and society. Now, for the first time in more than two thousand years, Tracy B. Strong contends, we have lost our foundational supports. In the words of Hannah Arendt, the state of political thought in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has left us effectively thinki...