Diana Coole, Samantha Frost

New Materialisms

Ontology, Agency, and Politics
Herausgeber: Coole, Diana; Frost, Samantha

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Produktbeschreibung

Collection of essays that consider the importance of the material body to discussions of political identity and agency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347538
• ISBN-10: 0822347539
• Artikelnr.: 30363744

Autorenporträt

Diana Coole is Professor of Political and Social Theory at Birkbeck College, University of London, England. She is the author, most recently, of Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-Humanism. She is a Leverhulme Research Fellow, 2010–13. Samantha Frost is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, and the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Lessons from a Materialist Thinker: Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introducing the New Materialisms / Diana Coole and Samantha Frost 1
The Force of Materiality
A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism / Jane Bennett 47
Nondialectical Materialism / Pheng Cheah 70
The Inertia of Matter and the Generativity of Flesh / Diana Coole 92
Impersonal Matter / Melissa A. Orlie 116
Political Matters
Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom / Elizabeth Grosz 139
Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy / Samantha Frost 158
Materialities of Experience / William E. Connolly 178
The Politics of "Life Itself" and New Ways of Dying / Rosi Braidotti 201
Economies of Disruption
The Elusive Material: What the Dog Doesn't Understand / Rey Chow 221
Orientations Matter / Sara Ahmed 234
Simon de Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms / Sonia Kruks 258
The Materialism of Historical Materialism / Jason Edwards 281
Bibliography 299
Contributors 319
Index 323