William E Connolly

Facing the Planetary

Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming

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Produktbeschreibung

William E. Connolly expands his influential work on democratic pluralism to confront the perils of climate change by calling on us to deepen our attachment to the planet and to create a worldwide coalition of people from all demographics to contest the forces that prevent us from addressing climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363309
• ISBN-10: 0822363305
• Artikelnr.: 44828989

Autorenporträt

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches political theory. He is a former editor of Political Theory and one of the cofounders of Theory & Event. His recent books include The Fragility of Things; A World of Becoming; Capitalism and Christianity, American Style; and Pluralism, all also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Prelude: Myth and the Planetary  1
1. Sociocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Planetary  15
2. Species Evolution and Cultural Creativity  37
3. Creativity and the Scars of Being  63
4. Distributed Agencies and Bumpy Temporalities  89
5. The Politics of Swarming and the General Strike  121
6. Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled Humanism  151
Postlude: Capitalism and the Planetary  175
Acknowledgments  199
Notes  201
Bibliography  217
Index  225