0415473500.Routledge.Democracy.and.Pluralism.The.Political.Thought.of.William.E.Connolly.Nov.2009.pdf

Democracy and Pluralism

uential con-

tribution to contemporary debates about the nature and prospects of demo-

cratic life in the twenty-

s political theory forms a distinct and in

rst 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 new paths for intellectual enquiry. Connolly has

brought an American tradition of pragmatist political thinking into fruitful

conversation with the best of contemporary continental European philosophy

and given to both a new energy and focus.

In this edited collection, a distinguished panel of political theorists from

both Europe and the USA provide a critical and nuanced assessment of his

contribution to the discipline, especially in the

eld of democratic theory.

s work, its connections to other ways of

thinking about the political and they evaluate his continuing contribution to

our understanding of the problems and promises of the present and to our

appreciation of what it might mean to ful

’

l the promise of the democratic

nal chapter provides space for Connolly himself to re

ect on his

considering the links between political theory and the science of complexity

while focusing on the immediate challenges facing both American and world

politics.

Democracy and Pluralism provides a critical introduction to the work of

William E. Connolly and to contemporary debates in political theory

encompassing topics such as radical democracy, the body, religion, time and

contingency.

‘

world of becoming

’

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 govern-

mentality in British politics.

William E. Connolly

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They identify the sources of Connolly

way of life.

The

interlocutors and further develop his conception of a

Routledge Innovations in Political Theory

1 A Radical Green Political Theory

Alan Carter

11 Citizenship and Identity

Towards a new republic

John Schwarzmantel

2 Rational Woman

A feminist critique of dualism

Raia Prokhovnik

12 Multiculturalism, Identity

and Rights

Edited by Bruce Haddock and

Peter Sutch

3 Rethinking State Theory

Mark J. Smith

13 Political Theory of

Global Justice

A cosmopolitan case

for the world state

Luis Cabrera

4 Gramsci and Contemporary Politics

Beyond pessimism of the intellect

Anne Showstack Sassoon

5 Post-Ecologist Politics

Social theory and the abdication

of the ecologist paradigm

Ingolfur Blühdorn

14 Democracy, Nationalism and

Multiculturalism

Edited by Ramón Maiz and

Ferrán Requejo

6 Ecological Relations

Susan Board

15 Political Reconciliation

Andrew Schaap

7 The Political Theory of

Global Citizenship

April Carter

16 National Cultural Autonomy

and Its Contemporary Critics

Edited by Ephraim Nimni

8 Democracy and National Pluralism

Edited by Ferrán Requejo

17 Power and Politics in

Poststructuralist Thought

New theories of the political

Saul Newman

9 Civil Society and Democratic Theory

Alternative voices

Gideon Baker

18 Capabilities Equality

Basic issues and problems

Edited by Alexander Kaufman

10 Ethics and Politics in

Contemporary Theory

Between critical theory and

post Marxism

Mark Devenney

19 Morality and Nationalism

Catherine Frost

20 Principles and Political Order

The challenge of diversity

Edited by Bruce Haddock,

Peri Roberts and Peter Sutch

27 Political Constructivism

Peri Roberts

28 The New Politics of Masculinity

Men, power and resistance

Fidelma Ashe

21 European Integration and the

Nationalities Question

Edited by John McGarry and

Michael Keating

29 Citizens and the State

Attitudes in Western Europe and

East and Southeast Asia

Takashi Inoguchi and Jean Blondel

22 Deliberation, Social Choice and

Absolutist Democracy

David van Mill

30 Political Language and Metaphor

Interpreting and changing

the world

Edited by Terrell Carver and

Jernej Pikalo

23 Sexual Justice/Cultural Justice

Critical perspectives in political

theory and practice

Edited by Barbara Arneil,

Monique Deveaux, Rita Dhamoon

and Avigail Eisenberg

31 Political Pluralism and the State

Beyond sovereignty

Marcel Wissenburg

24 The International Political Thought

of Carl Schmitt

Terror, liberal war and the crisis

of global order

Edited by Louiza Odysseos and

Fabio Petito

32 Political Evil in a Global Age

Hannah Arendt and international

theory

Patrick Hayden

33 Gramsci and Global Politics

Hegemony and resistance

Mark McNally and John

Schwarzmantel

25 In Defense of Human Rights

A non religious grounding in a

pluralistic world

Ari Kohen

34 Democracy and Pluralism

The political thought of

William E. Connolly

Edited by Alan Finlayson

26 Logics of Critical Explanation in

Social and Political Theory

Jason Glynos and David Howarth

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