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The Fragility of Things - Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism (Hardcover, New)
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The Fragility of Things - Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism (Hardcover, New)
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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 confines
self-organization to economic markets and equates the latter with
impersonal rationality. Neoliberal practice thus fails to address
the fragilities it exacerbates. Engaging a diverse range of
thinkers, from Friedrich Hayek, Michel Foucault, Hesiod, and
Immanuel Kant to Voltaire, Terrence Deacon, Friedrich Nietzsche,
and Alfred North Whitehead, Connolly brings the sense of fragility
alive as he rethinks the idea of freedom. Urging the Left not to
abandon the state but to reclaim it, he also explores scales of
politics below and beyond the state. The contemporary response to
fragility requires a militant pluralist assemblage composed of
those sharing affinities of spirituality across differences of
creed, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.
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