In Resounding Events, one of the world¿s preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. Connolly explores how diverse events jolt and animate thinking, and he enunciates the tasks of engaged intellectuals today.
In Resounding Events, one of the world¿s preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. Connolly explores how diverse events jolt and animate thinking, and he enunciates the tasks of engaged intellectuals today.
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins, where he teaches political theory. His books include Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth (Duke, 2020), Aspirational Fascism (Minnesota, 2017), Facing the Planetary (Duke, 2017), Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (Duke, 2008); Why I Am Not a Secularist (Minnesota, 1999), The Ethos of Pluralization (Minnesota, 1995), and The Terms of Political Discourse (Princeton, 1983, 3rd ed., 1993). In a poll of American political theorists published in 2010, he was named the fourth most influential political theorist in America over the last twenty years, after Rawls, Habermas, and Foucault.
Inhaltsangabe
Prologue: Event, Memory, Thinking . . . 1 1 Professionals and Intellectuals 9 2 A Fifty-Yard Dash 42 3 The Pioneer Valley 73 4 The Hopkins School of Theory 108 5 The New Fascist Revolt 150 Epilogue: Echoes and Spiritualities 185 Acknowledgments 193 Notes 197 Bibliography 205 Index 213
Prologue: Event, Memory, Thinking . . . 1 1 Professionals and Intellectuals 9 2 A Fifty-Yard Dash 42 3 The Pioneer Valley 73 4 The Hopkins School of Theory 108 5 The New Fascist Revolt 150 Epilogue: Echoes and Spiritualities 185 Acknowledgments 193 Notes 197 Bibliography 205 Index 213
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