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Why I Am Not a Secularist William E. Connolly |
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Challenges the limitations of traditional secularism. Religion's influence in American politics is obvious in recent debates about school prayer, abortion, and homosexuality. Many liberal secularists decry this trend, rejecting any interaction between politics and religion. But in Why I Am Not a Secularist, distinguished political theorist William E. Connolly argues that secularism, although admirable in its pursuit of freedom and diversity, too often undercuts these goals through its narrow and intolerant understandings of public reason. In response, he crafts a new model of public life that more accurately reflects the needs of contemporary politics. "This is the latest in a series of works in which Connolly has been interrogating liberalism and its fellow travelers. Drawing on thinkers such as Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze, and Arendt, he has become one of liberalism's deepest and most original critics today. And he is one of liberalism's most valuable critics, in part because his own intellectual journey begins with the experiences and preoccupations that led to liberalism." —American Political Science Review "This book deserves careful consideration." —Journal of Church and State William E. Connolly is professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at The Johns Hopkins University. His most recent books are The Ethos of Pluralization (1995), Identity\Difference (2002), and Neuropolitics (2002). His work The Terms of Political Discourse won the 1999 Benjamin Lippincott Award. 216 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2000 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements 1. The Conceits of Secularism Notes |
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