William E. Connolly: Democracy, Pluralism and Political Theory

by Chambers; Samuel A.

• ISBN13: 9780415431231
• ISBN10: 0415431239
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-01-31
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

William E. Connolly?s writings have pushed the leading edge of political theory, first in North America and then in Europe as well, for more than two decades now. This book draws on his numerous influential books and articles to provide a coherent and comprehensive overview of his significant contribution to the field of political theory. The book focuses in particular on three key areas of his thinking: Democracy: his work in democratic theory - through his critical challenges to the traditions of Rawlsian theories of justice and Habermasian theories of deliberative democracy - has spurred the creation of a fertile and powerful new literature Pluralism - Connolly's work utterly transformed the terrain of the field by helping to resignify pluralism: from a conservative theory of order based on the status quo into a radical theory of democratic contestation based on a progressive political vision The Terms of Political Theory - Connolly haschanged the language in which Anglo-American political theory is spoken, and entirely shuffled the pack with which political theorists work.

Author Biography

Samuel A. Chambers is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Swansea University, where he teaches political theory and cultural politics. He writes broadly in contemporary thought, including work on language, culture, and the politics of gender and sexuality. Terrell Carver is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published extensively on theoretical issues relevant to sex, gender and sexuality.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction: Politics, theory, and innovation: the writings of William E. Connolly (Chambers/Carver)	p. 1
The theory of pluralism	p. 13
The challenge to pluralist theory (1969)	p. 15
Pluralization (1995)	p. 37
Fundamentalism in America (1995)	p. 61
Deep pluralism (2005)	p. 85
Post-sovereign pluralist politics (2005)	p. 105
Agonistic democracy	p. 129
Confessing identity/belonging to difference (1991)	p. 131
Agonism and liberalism (1991)	p. 147
Agonism and democracy (1991)	p. 174
Beyond the moral imperative (1993)	p. 207
An ethos of engagement (2000)	p. 231
The terms of political theory	p. 255
Essentially contested concepts (1974)	p. 257
The order of modernity (1988)	p. 280
Taylor, Foucault, and truth (1985)	p. 294
White noise (2005)	p. 303
Twilight of the idols (1995)	p. 312
An interview with William Connolly: interview questions from Samuel Chambers	p. 321
Index	p. 333
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