New Materialisms : Ontology, Agency, and Politics / Diana H Coole;

By: Coole, Diana HContributor(s): Coole, Diana | Frost, SamanthaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher number: :International Book Distributors | :Flat No 17, Prakash Apartment 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi Publication details: Durham & London : Duke University Press, 2010Description: x, 336 pages. 24cmISBN: 9780822347729Subject(s): Philosophical | Philosophical schools of thought | Naturalism and related systems and doctrines | Materialisme | Ontologia | Política | Agent (Filosofia) | MaterialismeDDC classification: 146.3 COO
Contents:
Acknowledgments ixIntroducing the New Materialisms / Diana Coole and Samantha Frost 1The Force of Materiality A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism / Jane Bennett 47Nondialectical Materialism / Pheng Cheah 70The Inertia of Matter and the Generativity of Flesh / Diana Coole 92Impersonal Matter / Melissa A. Orlie 116Political Matters Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom / Elizabeth Grosz 139Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy / Samantha Frost 158Materialities of Experience / William E. Connolly 178The Politics of "Life Itself" and New Ways of Dying / Rosi Braidotti 201Economies of Disruption The Elusive Material: What the Dog Doesn't Understand / Rey Chow 221Orientations Matter / Sara Ahmed 234Simon de Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms / Sonia Kruks 258The Materialism of Historical Materialism / Jason Edwards 281Bibliography 299Contributors 319Index 323
Summary: Leading cultural and political theorists argue that any account of experience, agency, and political action demands attention to the urgent issues of our own material existence and environment.
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Acknowledgments ixIntroducing the New Materialisms / Diana Coole and Samantha Frost 1The Force of Materiality A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism / Jane Bennett 47Nondialectical Materialism / Pheng Cheah 70The Inertia of Matter and the Generativity of Flesh / Diana Coole 92Impersonal Matter / Melissa A. Orlie 116Political Matters Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom / Elizabeth Grosz 139Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy / Samantha Frost 158Materialities of Experience / William E. Connolly 178The Politics of "Life Itself" and New Ways of Dying / Rosi Braidotti 201Economies of Disruption The Elusive Material: What the Dog Doesn't Understand / Rey Chow 221Orientations Matter / Sara Ahmed 234Simon de Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms / Sonia Kruks 258The Materialism of Historical Materialism / Jason Edwards 281Bibliography 299Contributors 319Index 323

Leading cultural and political theorists argue that any account of experience, agency, and political action demands attention to the urgent issues of our own material existence and environment.

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