William Connolly: 15 books
by William Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Professor David Kettler commented at the time of initial release, that this book is "writing with great poise and clarity, the author says important things in a deceptively simple way about a problem of paramount significance. A fine piece of clarification, blending just the right mixture of...
Theories of Democracy
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2000
Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice,...
The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage, 5th Edition
The Official Style Guide Used by the Writers and Editors of the World's Most Authoritative News Organization
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The premier source for journalists, now revised and updated for 2015.
Does the White House tweet?
Or does the White House post on Twitter?
Can "text" be a verb and also a noun?
When should you link?
For anyone who writes--short stories or business plans, book reports or news articles--knotty...
by William E. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
Over the past two decades, the renowned political theorist William E. Connolly has developed a powerful theory of pluralism as the basis of a territorial politics. In this concise volume, Connolly launches a new defense of pluralism, contending that it has a renewed relevance in light of pressing...
by William E. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
In A 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,...
Neuropolitics
Thinking, Culture, Speed
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
Why would a political theorist venture into the nexus between neuroscience and film? According to William Connolly—whose new book is itself an eloquent answer—the combination exposes the ubiquitous role that technique plays in thinking, ethics, and politics. By taking up recent research in neuroscience...
Aspirational Fascism
The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Coming to terms with a new period of uncertainty when it is still replete with possibilities
This quick and engaging study clearly lays out the United States’ current democratic crisis. Examining the early stages of the Nazi movement in Germany, William E. Connolly detects synergies with...
Facing the Planetary
Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the politics of pluralization, capitalism, fragility, and secularism to address the complexities of climate change and to complicate notions of the Anthropocene. Focusing on planetary processes—including the ocean conveyor,...
The Fragility of Things
Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
In The Fragility of Things, eminent theorist William E. Connolly focuses on several self-organizing ecologies that help to constitute our world. These interacting geological, biological, and climate systems, some of which harbor creative capacities, are depreciated by that brand of neoliberalism that...
by Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Pushkin, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2019
CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The...
by William A. Barry, William J. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The Classic Work on Helping People Become Closer to God
Fathers Barry and Connolly see the work of spiritual direction as helping people to develop their relationship with God. In thinking and practice they have absorbed the insights of modern psychotherapy, but have not been absorbed by them....
The Augustinian Imperative
A Reflection on the Politics of Morality
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2002
An entirely new interpretation of one of the most seminal and widely read figures in the history of political thought, The Augustinian Imperative is also 'an archaeological investigation into the intellectual foundation of liberal societies.' Drawing support from Nietzsche and Foucault, Connolly argues...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Character Assassins
Carr, Dershowitz, Mudd:Who’Ll Live Ininfamy?
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
CHARACTER ASSASSINS is a brief history of the consequences of bearing false witness. It tells how toxic talk has led to shunning, witch hunts, persecuti ons, false prosecuti ons, executi ons, pogroms, famines, wars and genocides. From small acorns great oaks grow, and from small lies come poisonous...
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