{"product_id":"resounding-events-adventures-of-an-academic-from-the-working-class-paperback","title":"Resounding Events: Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam E. Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, David Easton Award for Political Theory, 2023\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eResounding Events\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the world's preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. From youthful experiences of McCarthyism, to the resurgence of white evangelicalism, to the advent of aspirational fascism and the acceleration of the Anthropocene, Connolly traces a career spent passionately engaged in making a more just, diverse, and equitable world. He surveys the shifting ground upon which politics can be pursued; and he discloses how to be an intellectual in universities that today do not encourage that practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFar more than a memoir, \u003ci\u003eResounding Events\u003c\/i\u003e probes the concerns that have animated Connolly's work across more than a dozen books by tracing the bumpy imbrications of event, memory and thinking in intellectual life. Connolly experiments with ways to capture various voices that mark a self at any time. An event, as he elaborates it, is what disturbs or inspires thinking as it activates layered sheets of memory. A memory sheet itself assembles recollections, dispositions organized from the past, and vague remains that carry efficacies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eResounding Events\u003c\/i\u003e shows how resonances between event and memory can help forge new concepts better adjusted to an emergent situation. Addressing tensions between working class experience and norms of the academy, his father's coma, antiwar protests, the growing disaffection of the white working class, the neoliberalization of the university, climate denialism, and his sister's experience with workers shifting to Trump, Connolly shows how engaged intellectuals become worthy of the events they encounter.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Easton Prize for Political Theory, 2023\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A rich meditation on how events prompt memories that open up new ways of seeing, thinking, acting, and being. \u003ci\u003eResounding Events\u003c\/i\u003e is 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.\"--\u003cb\u003eMichael J. Sandel\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. Connollyʻs characteristic voice--urgent, galloping sentences; long, staccato lists; and wry, understated humor--invites us in.\"--\u003cb\u003eKathy Ferguson\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Hawaiʻi \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eResounding Events\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the world's preeminent political theorists reflects on a career as an academic hailing from the working class. From youthful experiences of McCarthyism, to the resurgence of white evangelicalism, to the advent of aspirational fascism and the acceleration of the Anthropocene, Connolly traces a career spent passionately engaged in making a more just, diverse, and equitable world. He surveys the shifting ground upon which politics can be pursued; and he discloses how to be an intellectual in universities that today do not encourage that practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFar more than a memoir, \u003ci\u003eResounding Events\u003c\/i\u003e probes the concerns that have animated Connolly's work across more than a dozen books by tracing the bumpy imbrications of event, memory and thinking in intellectual life. The book shows how resonances between event and memory can help forge new concepts better adjusted to an emergent situation. Addressing tensions between working class experience and norms of the academy, his father's coma, antiwar protests, the growing disaffection of the white working class, the neoliberalization of the university, climate denialism, and his sister's experience with workers shifting to Trump, Connolly shows how engaged intellectuals become worthy of the events they encounter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam E. Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins, where he teaches political theory.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam E. Connolly\u003c\/b\u003e is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor at Johns Hopkins, where he teaches political theory. His books include \u003ci\u003eClimate Machines, Fascist Drives, and Truth\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 2020), \u003ci\u003eAspirational Fascism \u003c\/i\u003e(Minnesota, 2017), \u003ci\u003e Facing the Planetary\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 2017), \u003ci\u003eCapitalism and Christianity, American Style\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke, 2008); \u003ci\u003eWhy I Am Not a Secularist\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 1999), \u003ci\u003eThe Ethos of Pluralization\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 1995), and \u003ci\u003eThe Terms of Political Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e (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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.52 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42134787686535,"sku":"9781531500238","price":51.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/809013fc20f37b427a49da34070f5924_1c583f3e-d0aa-40d9-b316-945a9dd1bd7b.webp?v=1739226180","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/resounding-events-adventures-of-an-academic-from-the-working-class-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}