The New Politics of Materialism: History, Philosophy, Science

ISBN-13: 9780367886233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str.

Sarah Ellenzweig; John Zammito

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'The various strands of new materialism and posthumanism have been among the more exciting but also contested recent developments in the humanities. This volume is a multi-faceted conversation with these developments, constructively exploring their relations to older materialisms, feminism, science and technology studies, and various forms of naturalism, among other contributing and competing stances. There is no united front here "for" or "against" new materialism or posthumanism, but instead some thoughtful reflections upon what the new materialisms distinctively contribute to current scholarship, and how best to build upon or respond to those contributions.' - Joseph Rouse, Wesleyan University, USA

Spis treści

Introduction: New Materialism: Looking Forward, Looking Back Sarah Ellenzweig and John H. Zammito

 

Part 1: Materialist Prehistories

1.Who’s Afraid of Inertia? The Cartesian-Newtonian Legacy Reconsidered Sarah Ellenzweig

2., Varieties of Vital Materialism Charles Wolfe

3. Plasticity Matters Jess Keiser

4. Deleuze and New Materialism: Naturalism, Norms, and Ethics Keith Ansell-Pearson

 

Part 2: Humanities and the Sciences of Matter

5. Materialism, Old and New, and the Party of Humanity Catherine Wilson

6. Engendering New Materializations: Feminism, Nature, and the Challenge to Disciplinary Proper Objects Angela Willey

7. What Sort of Thing is the Social? Or, Durkheim and Deleuze on Organization and Infrastructure Ian Lowrie

 

Part 3: Monism, Liveliness, and the Problem of Scale

8. The Cognitive Nonconscious and the New Materialism. N. Katherine Hayles

9. Thinking Scale in the New Materialism Derek Woods 

 

Part 4: The Politics of Ontology

10. Detachment Theory: Agency, Normativity and the Claims of New Materialism Lenny Moss

11. Materialism, Constructivism, and Political Skepticism: Leibniz, Hobbes and the Erudite Libertines Mogens Laerke

12. Normativity Matters: Philosophical Naturalism and Political Theory Christian J. Emden

 

Conclusion: Concluding (Irenic) Postscript: Naturalism as a Response to the New Materialism John H. Zammito.

Index

O autorze

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.