{"product_id":"resounding-events-adventures-of-an-academic-from-the-working-class-paperback-softback-9781531500238","title":"Resounding Events; Adventures of an Academic from the Working Class (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531500238","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eResounding Events\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAdventures of an Academic from the Working Class\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eWilliam E. Connolly (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531500238\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 March 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.335 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, David Easton Award for Political Theory, 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \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.\u003cbr\u003e Far 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.\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrologue\u003c\/b\u003e: Event, Memory, Thinking . . .   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eProfessionals and Intellectuals   9\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eA Fifty-Yard Dash   42\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Pioneer Valley   73\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Hopkins School of Theory   108\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eThe New Fascist Revolt   150\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/b\u003e: Echoes and Spiritualities   185\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  193\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  197\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  205\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  213\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685403881752,"sku":"9781531500238","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/resounding-events-adventures-of-an-academic-from-the-working-class-paperback-softback-9781531500238","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}