The Terms of Political Discourse

Power. Interest. Freedom. Responsibility. Connolly explores and confronts sets of interrelated concepts such as these - concepts whose meanings are persistently subject to debate in the context of political discourse. He illuminates the role played in political life and political enquiry by such conceptual contests. And in staking out his own position in these contests, he seeks both to politicize broad areas of social life and to weave norms of responsibility more thoroughly into politics.

William E. Connolly is Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University, and is the author of Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox.