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A World of Becoming

[Paperback]

by William E. Connolly

    • Author

      William E. Connolly

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Duke University Press

    • Published

      January 2011

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      InA 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 secrete 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 Merleau-Ponty, Alfred North Whitehead, and Gilles Deleuze, as well as the complexity theorist of biology Stuart Kauffman and the theologian Catherine Keller. Being attuned to a world of becoming, Connolly argues, may also help us address dangerous resonances between global finance capital, cross-regional religious resentments, neoconservative ideology, and the 24-hour mass media.Coming to terms with subliminal changes in the contemporary experience of time that challenge traditional images can help us grasp how these movements have arisen and perhaps even inspire creative counter-movements. The book closes with the chapter "The Theorist and the Seer," in which Connolly draws insights from early Greek ideas of the Seer and a Jerry Lewis film, The Nutty Professor, to inform the theory enterprise today.

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      • Author

        William E. Connolly

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Duke University Press

      • Published

        January 2011

      • Weight

        323g

      • Page Count

        224

      • Dimensions

        156 x 232 x 15 mm

      • ISBN

        9780822348795

      • ISBN-10

        0822348799

      • Eden Code

        3496060

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      • Author/Creator: William E. Connolly

      • ISBN: 9780822348795

      • Publisher: Duke University Press

      • Release Date: January 2011

      • Weight: 323g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 15 mm

      • Eden Code: 3496060


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