Connolly Resounding Events

Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5315-0025-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connolly, William E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Dekonstruktivismus, Strukturalismus, Poststrukturalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Connolly William E.:
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.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.