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affectivity
agency theory
Agnostic
Ansell-Pearson Keith
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Charles. T. Wolfe
De La Mothe Le Vayer
Deleuze
Detachment Theory
Eighteenth Century Materialism
Ellenzweig. Sarah
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Esprits Forts
feminist science studies
Finite Mode
Flat Ontology
H. Zammito John
Hayles. N. Katherine
Incorporeal Soul
Intrinsic Finality
J. Emden Christian
Jean Pierre Changeux
Keiser. Jess
La Mettrie
Laerke Mogens
Lowrie. Ian
material
Materialist Storytelling
matter
mechanism
Mechanistic Materialism
monism
monism ontology
Moss. Lenny
Mushroom Bodies
New materialism
Nonconscious Cognition
Nonhuman Animals
ontology
Particul Ar
Passive Matter
philosophical naturalism
political implications of materialism
Political Skepticism
Posthumanist Ethics
Rosi Braidotti
Scale Domains
Scale Variance
Seventeenth Century Mechanism
social organisation theory
tenporality
Vice Versa
vitalism
Willey. Angela
Wilson. Catherine
Woods. Derek

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138240742
  • Weight: 790g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Jun 2017
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and inert. Instead it gives weight to topics often overlooked in such accounts: agency, vitalism, complexity, contingency, and self-organization.

This collection, which includes an international roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature, and science, is the first to ask what is "new" about the new materialism and place it in interdisciplinary perspective. Against current theories of new materialism it argues for a deeper engagement with materialism's history, questions whether matter can be "lively," and asks whether new materialism's wish to revitalize politics and the political lives up to its promise.

Contributors: Keith Ansell-Pearson, Sarah Ellenzweig, Christian J. Emden, N. Katherine Hayles, Jess Keiser, Mogens Laerke, Ian Lowrie, Lenny Moss, Angela Willey, Catherine Wilson, Charles T. Wolfe, Derek Woods, and John H. Zammito.
About
Sarah Ellenzweig is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Rice University, USA. She is author of The Fringes of Belief: English Literature, Ancient Heresy, and the Politics of Freethinking, 1660-1760 (2008). She has published essays in ELH, Journal of the History of Ideas, Journal of British Studies, and MLQ. She is currently working on a book on the philosophy of motion and the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century. John H. Zammito is John Antony Weir Professor of History at Rice University, USA. His key publications are: The Genesis of Kant’s Critique of Judgment (1992); Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology (2002); and A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-Positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (2004). His current research involves the life sciences in Germany in the 18th century and a monograph entitled The Gestation of German Biology is forthcoming from Chicago.