Crisis—A Wide Range of Issues

After Critique

“…Connolly speaks here of a 'critical responsiveness', by which he means that one engages 'the play of identities, institutions, and principles' with the aim of 'rendering them more responsive to that which exceeds them, more generous and refined in their engagement with difference'. 11 This brief sketch of Connolly's perspective is intended only to provide some initial plausibility. The point is merely to show how one might formulate a robust ethos of subjectivity that takes shape around an agonistic weak ontology, and yet does not end up affirming a sense of the political that is irredeemably antagonistic.…”