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sarees aa sits tage aS Srerrae | ; p > ea ia k: 7 7 ai Sty"t am C~ S cf : 7 - ; | POLITICS AND AMBIGUITY RHETORIC OF THE HUMAN SCIENCES Lying Down Together: Law, Metaphor, and Theology Milner S. Ball Politics and Ambiguity William E. Connolly The Rhetoric of Economics Donald N. McCloskey Therapeutic Discourse and Socratic Dialogue Tullio Maranhao Heracles’ Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law James Boyd White Politics and Ambiguity WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Published 1987 The University of Wisconsin Press 114 North Murray Street Madison, Wisconsin 53715 The University of Wisconsin Press, Ltd. 1 Gower Street London WCIE 6HA, England Copyright © 1987 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved First printing Printed in the United States of America For LC CIP information see the colophon ISBN 0-299-10990-9 FEB 17 1989 CONTENTS PREFACE vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Xiil DEMOCRACY AND NORMALIZATION 3 The Ambiguity of Democracy 3 Democracy and Discordance 9 THE POLITICS OF REINDUSTRIALIZATION 17 The Threat to the Welfare State 17 Defanging Reindustrialization 26 CIVIC DISAFFECTION AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY Si The Common Good and Its Devaluation 31 The Role of the Welfare State 36 Reconstituting Party Priorities 38 PROGRESS, GROWTH, AND PESSIMISM IN AMERICA 42 The Present and the Future 42 The Politics of Bifurcation 46 THE CRITICAL THEORY OF JURGEN HABERMAS 52 The Scope of Critical Theory 52 Critical Theory and Psychoanalysis 56 Hermeneutics and Emancipation 61 The Theory of Communication 64 The Legitimation Crisis 67 vi Contents THE DILEMMA OF LEGITIMACY 72 The Question of Legitimacy 74 Productivity and Legitimacy 76 The Bifurcation of Liberalism 83 The Retreat of Critical Theory 86 The Foucauldian Reversal 89 Resentment and Legitimacy 97 ‘ DISCIPLINE, POLITICS, AMBIGUITY 99 Unconscious Contrivances of Control 99 Discipline and Subjectivity 103 Self-Reflexivity and Ambiguity 107 THE MIRROR OF AMERICA 116 The Dilemma of Epistemology 116 Politics without Foundations 119 Dewey or Foucault 123 MODERN AUTHORITY AND AMBIGUITY 127 The Issue of Authority 127 Modern and Premodern Authority 128 Authority and Ambiguity 136 10 WHERE THE WORD BREAKS OFF 143 The Mystery of Language 143 Expressivism and Attunement 146 The Genealogical Model 152 Poetics and Politics 160 INDEX 165
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