PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins, where he teaches political theory. His books include Climate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth (Duke, 2020), Aspirational Fascism (Minnesota, 2017), Facing the Planetary (Duke, 2017), Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (Duke, 2008); Why I Am Not a Secularist (Minnesota, 1999), The Ethos of Pluralization (Minnesota, 1995), and The Terms of Political Discourse (Princeton, 1983, 3rd ed., 1993). In a poll of American political theorists published in 2010, he was named the fourth most influential political theorist in America over the last twenty years, after Rawls, Habermas, and Foucault.
A rich meditation on how events prompt memories that open up new ways of seeing, thinking, acting, and being. The book is also the story--often poignant, sometimes funny--of a working-class kid from Flint, Michigan, who became one of the most restlessly creative political theorists in America. Resounding Events takes us on a riveting journey from the cruelties of late-modern capitalism to a spiritually generous account of what pluralism really means and bids us to become.---Michael J. Sandel, author of The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?, Drawing on memory as 'a series of echo chambers within which thinking vibrates, ' William Connolly elegantly weaves working class legacies and family affections into his half-century exploration of critical political theory and radical politics. Connolly's characteristic voice--urgent, galloping sentences; long, staccato lists; and wry, understated humor--invites us in.---Kathy Ferguson, University of Hawai'i,
