The fragility of things : self-organizing processes, neoliberal fantasies, and democratic activism

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The fragility of things : self-organizing processes, neoliberal fantasies, and democratic activism

William E. Connolly

Duke University Press, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-232) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

Prelude. 1775 1 1. Steps toward an Ecology of Late Capitalism 20 first interlude: Melancholia and Us 43 2. Hayek, Neoliberalism, and Freedom 52 second interlude: Modes of Self-Organization 81 3. Shock Therapy, Dramatization, and Practical Wisdom 98 third interlude: Fullness and Vitality 140 4. Process Philosophy and Planetary Politics 149 postlude: Role Experimentation and Democratic Activism 179 Acknowledgments 197 Notes 201 Bibliography 225 Index 233

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