In Memoriam: William E. Connolly

Political theorist William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University, passed last week, leaving behind an influential body of work studying democracy, capitalism and culture. 

A frequent contributor to our journal Theory & Event, in 2019 Connolly was celebrated in the pages of that journal in a symposium, "William E. Connolly at 80" which features work by Thomas L. Dumm, Bonnie Honig, Catherine Keller, Nidesh Lawtoo, and Lars Tønder as well as a response from Connolly himself. 

To celebrate his memory, we've collected a reading list of Connolly's published works in Hopkins Press Journals, including his contributions in Theory & Event, stretching back to its very first issue in 1997. All these articles will be free to read through 31 March 2026.

Symposium: William Connelly at 80

Introduction: William E. Connolly at Eighty
Thomas L. Dumm
Theory & Event
Volume 22, Number 3, July 2019

12 Angry Men: Care for the Agon and the Varieties of Masculine Experience
Bonnie Honig
Theory & Event
Volume 22, Number 3, July 2019

Connolly at 80
Catherine Keller
Theory & Event
Volume 22, Number 3, July 2019

The Powers of Mimesis: Simulation, Encounters, Comic Fascism
Nidesh Lawtoo
Theory & Event
Volume 22, Number 3, July 2019

Reading for the Comic: Connolly and the Politics of Becoming
Lars Tønder
Theory & Event
Volume 22, Number 3, July 2019

Staying with the Possibilities
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 22, Number 3, July 2019

William E. Connolly in Theory & Event and Social Research: An International Quarterly

Bodily Stresses, Cultural Drives, Fascist Contagions
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 25, Number 3, July 2022

Life, Time, and Pandemic Events
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 23, Number 4 Supplement, October 2020

The Human Predicament
William E. Connolly
Social Research: An International Quarterly
Volume 76, Number 4, Winter 2009

Bodies, Microbes and the Planetary
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 21, Number 4, October 2018

Trump, the Working Class, and Fascist Rhetoric
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 20, Number 1, January 2017 Supplement

The Fragility of Things and a General Strike
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 18, Issue 3, 2015

Steps toward an Ecology of Late Capitalism
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 15, Issue 1, 2012

What Is To Be Done?
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 14, Issue 4, 2011 Supplement

Habermas, Deleuze and Capitalism
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 11, Issue 4, 2008

Wolin, Superpower, and Christianity
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 10, Issue 1, 2007

The Media and Think Tank Politics
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 8, Issue 4, 2005

The Radical Enlightenment: Faith, Power, Theory
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 7, Issue 3, 2004

Film Technique and Micropolitics
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 6, Issue 1, 2002

The Greatest Events
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 4, Issue 3, 2000

Politics, Power and Ethics: A Discussion Between Judith Butler and William Connolly
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 4, Issue 2, 2000

The New Cult of Civilizational Superiority
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 2, Issue 4, 1998

The Desanctification of Subjectivity
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 1, Issue 2, 1997

Drugs, the Nation and Free Lancing: Decoding the Moral Universe of William Bennett
William E. Connolly
Theory & Event
Volume 1, Issue 1, 1997