{"product_id":"facing-the-planetary-9780822363309","title":"Facing the Planetary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam E. Connolly expands his influential work on democratic pluralism to confront the perils of climate change by calling on us to deepen our attachment to the planet and to create a worldwide coalition of people from all demographics to contest the forces that prevent us from addressing climate change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"... theorists will find plenty to unpack here. Recommended. Graduate students through faculty.\" -- R. J. Meagher * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Connolly’s analysis of planetary calamities and proposal for a politics of swarming merit attention. The book effectively integrates a variety of sources, including from political theory, social theory, philosophy, theology, economics, geology, biology and paleontology, and covers a wide range of topics, reinvigorating discussion regarding not only the current ecological problems, but also what can be done given the prospect of a seemingly apocalyptic future.\" -- Nikhilendu Deb * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFacing the Planetary\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely book. It underscores what is daily becoming ever more obvious.\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- David W. Orr * Perspectives on Politics *\u003cbr\u003e\"William Connolly aspires to make us see our fragile and beautiful planet from the temporal distance the Anthropocene imposes. He does so by plunging, with intellectual courage, theoretical sophistication, and deeply felt appreciation for the human and nonhuman forces that tie human destines to what he calls 'the planetary.'\" -- Nidesh Lawtoo * Postmodern Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"Bill Connolly’s \u003ci\u003eFacing the Planetary \u003c\/i\u003ebuzzes with a swarm of innovative concepts, testing both the limits and the creative powers of contemporary political theory to address the fragility of the human condition in the Anthropocene.\" -- Anatoli Ignatov * Contemporary Political Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrelude: Myth and the Planetary  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sociocentrism, the Anthropocene, and the Planetary  15\u003cbr\u003e 2. Species Evolution and Cultural Creativity  37\u003cbr\u003e 3. Creativity and the Scars of Being  63\u003cbr\u003e 4. Distributed Agencies and Bumpy Temporalities  89\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Politics of Swarming and the General Strike  121\u003cbr\u003e 6. Postcolonial Ecologies, Extinction Events, and Entangled Humanism  151\u003cbr\u003e Postlude: Capitalism and the Planetary  175\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  199\u003cbr\u003e Notes  201\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  217\u003cbr\u003e Index  225","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406101291351,"sku":"9780822363309","price":90.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822363309.jpg?v=1730494531","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/facing-the-planetary-9780822363309","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}