Connolly A World of Becoming

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9351-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Reihe: a John Hope Franklin Center Book

The prominent political theorist William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy for the contemporary world: a world whose powers of creative evolution include and exceed the human estate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Connolly, William E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prelude 1

1. Complexity, Agency, and Time 17

2. The Vicissitudes of Experience 43

3. Belief, Spirituality, and Time 68

Interlude 93

4. The Human Predicament 97

5. Capital Flows, Sovereign Decisions, and World Resonance Machines 124

6. The Theorist and the Seer 148

Postlude 176

Acknowledgments 178

Notes 181

Bibliography 199

Index 205

Über Autor(innen)

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 of the blog The Contemporary Condition, and a former editor (1980–86) of the journal Political Theory.