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A World of Becoming

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Description for A World of Becoming Paperback.
In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world whose powers of creative evolution include and exceed the human estate. This is a world composed of multiple interacting systems, including those of climate change, biological evolution, economic practices, and geological formations. Such open systems, set on different temporal registers of stability and instability, periodically resonate together to produce profound, unpredictable changes. To engage such a world reflectively is to feel pressure to alter established practices of politics, ethics, and spirituality. In pursuing such a course, Connolly draws inspiration from philosophers such as Maurice ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822348795
SKU
V9780822348795
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99-17

About William E. Connolly
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent books include Capitalism and Christianity, American Style and Pluralism, both also published by Duke University Press. His classic study The Terms of Political Discourse won the Benjamin Lippincott Award in 1999. Connolly is an advisory editor of the journal Theory & Event, a co-editor ... Read more

Reviews for A World of Becoming
“A World of Becoming continues William E. Connolly’s project of a ‘positive’ pluralism: one unafraid of the ‘messy fecundities’ of a complex world tense with unresolved tendencies yet effervescent with emergent potential. Against the politics of resentment so dominant today, he argues for an ethos of radical ‘interinvolvement’ affirmative of becoming, with all its promise and all its loose ends. ... Read more

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