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Apologies for cross-posting 30 % off for all POSTSTRUC-RADPOLS subscribers!* <http://bit.ly/i9uZFh> A World of Becoming <http://bit.ly/i9uZFh> William Connolly "A World of Becoming is a deeply original and timely book drawing together a series of ideas, discoveries, and concepts from a wide range of fields into a coherent image of a new way of responding to what William E. Connolly calls the human predicament. It suggests many practical guidelines, forms of action, types of ethos, and modes of interaction directly applicable to some of the most intractable social and political problems we face today. It is a brave and engaged work."-James Williams, author of Gilles Deleuze's Logic of Sense In A World of Becoming William E. Connolly outlines a political philosophy suited to a world whose powers of creative evolution include and exceed the human estate. This is a world composed of multiple, interacting systems, including those of climate change, biological evolution, economic practices, and geological formations. Such open systems, set on different temporal registers of stability and instability, periodically resonate together to secrete profound, unpredictable changes. To engage such a world reflectively is to feel pressure to alter established practices of politics, ethics, and spirituality. In pursuing such a course, Connolly draws inspiration from philosophers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Alfred North Whitehead, and Gilles Deleuze, as well as the complexity theorist of biology Stuart Kauffman and the theologian Catherine Keller. Being attuned to a world of becoming, Connolly argues, may also help us address dangerous resonances between global finance capital, cross-regional religious resentments, neoconservative ideology, and the 24-hour mass media. Coming to terms with subliminal changes in the contemporary experience of time that challenge traditional images can help us grasp how these movements have arisen and perhaps even inspire creative counter-movements. Duke University Press January 2011 240pp 9780822348795 PB £14.99 - Now only £10.50 when you quote CSWC0211WB when you order Postage and Packing £3.50 (PLEASE QUOTE REF NUMBER: CSWC0211WB for discount) To order a copy please contact Marston on +44(0)1235 465500 or email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit our website: http://bit.ly/i9uZFh where you can still receive your discount Or to request a free inspection copy of this title please email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> stating your university, any relevant courses/modules you teach and the intake for your course/module per year. *Offer excludes the USA, South America and Australasia.