Prominent political theorist defends democratic pluralism as a political stance.

William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. His most recent books include Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed; Why I Am Not a Secularist; and The Ethos of Pluralization. His classic study The Terms of Political Discourse won the Benjamin Lippincott Award in 1999. He was the editor of the journal Political Theory from 1980 to 1986.

Acknowledgments vii
Prelude 1
1. Pluralism and Evil 11
2. Pluralism and Relativism 38
3. Pluralism and the Universe 68
Interlude 93
4. Pluralism and Time 97
5. Pluralism and Sovereignty 131
Postlude: Belonging to Time 161
Notes 171
Index 187