Connolly Facing the Planetary

Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7325-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connolly, William E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.