{"product_id":"resounding-events-adventures-of-an-academic-from-the-working-class-9781531500238","title":"Resounding Events: Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14381216\"\u003eWilliam E. Connolly\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531500238\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531500234\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL010000\"\u003eHistory \u0026amp; Theory | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI043000\"\u003eMovements | Post-Structuralism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-SOC\"\u003eSocial Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-SOC050000\"\u003eSocial Classes \u0026amp; Economic Disparity\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44578262581485,"sku":"9781531500238","price":47.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_0b9eefd9-64c6-4165-941e-f4ac822f7f6a.jpg?v=1702043972","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/resounding-events-adventures-of-an-academic-from-the-working-class-9781531500238","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}