1st Edition

Democracy and Pluralism The Political Thought of William E. Connolly

Edited By Alan Finlayson Copyright 2010
264 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

William E. Connolly’s political theory forms a distinct and influential contribution to contemporary debates about the nature and prospects of democratic life in the twenty-first century. His original conceptualisations of pluralism, naturalism, the politics of the body, religion, secularism and his daring incorporation of contemporary neurobiology into political theory and analysis, have opened... Read more

Introduction: Becoming Plural Alan Finlayson  1. Pluralizing Methods: Contingency, Ethics, and Critical Explanation David Howarth  2. Ethos and Late-Modern Democracy Stephen White  3. Connolly, Embodiment, Conversion, and Mysticism: Learning to Be Present in the Present Thomas Dumm  4. Bill Connolly’s Others: Erotics and Cinematics Michael Shapiro  5. Interpretation, Political Theory, and the Hegemony of Normative Theorizing Sophia Mihic  6. Hate, Loathing and Political Theory: Thinking With and Against William Connolly Moya Lloyd  7. A Post-Secular Faith? Connolly on Pluralism and Evil James Martin  8.  Beyond Secularism: Immanence and Transcendence in the Political Thought of William E. Connolly Luca Mavelli  9.  Connolly’s Embodied Politics: Revolutionising the Practices of Everyday Life Gulshan Khan  10. Must We Persist to Continue? : William Connolly’s Critical Responsiveness Beyond the Limits of the Human Species Jairus Grove  11. Time, politics and contingency in Connolly’s political thought Jeremy Valentine  12.  A World of Becoming William E. Connolly

Biography

Alan Finlayson is Reader in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Swansea University. He has written widely on political theories of radical democracy and on the critical analysis of ideology and governmentality in British Politics.