Coole / Frost New Materialisms

Ontology, Agency, and Politics
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9299-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 347 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coole, Diana

Frost, Samantha

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bennett, Jane

Cheah, Pheng

Orlie, Melissa A.

Grosz, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.