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A World of Becoming (Paperback)
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A World of Becoming (Paperback)
Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book
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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, and geological
formations. Such open systems, set on different temporal registers
of stability and instability, periodically resonate together to
produce profound, unpredictable changes. To engage such a world
reflectively is to feel pressure to alter established practices of
politics, ethics, and spirituality. In pursuing such a course,
Connolly draws inspiration from philosophers such as Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, Alfred North Whitehead, and Gilles Deleuze, as well
as the complexity theorist of biology Stuart Kauffman and the
theologian Catherine Keller.Attunement to a world of becoming,
Connolly argues, may help us address dangerous resonances between
global finance capital, cross-regional religious resentments,
neoconservative ideology, and the 24-hour mass media. Coming to
terms with subliminal changes in the contemporary experience of
time that challenge traditional images can help us grasp how these
movements have arisen and perhaps even inspire creative
counter-movements. The book closes with the chapter "The Theorist
and the Seer," in which Connolly draws insights from early Greek
ideas of the Seer and a Jerry Lewis film, The Nutty Professor, to
inform the theory enterprise today.
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