New Materialisms

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

• Gebundenes Buch

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: 235mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780822347538
• ISBN-10: 0822347539
• Artikelnr.: 30363744

Autorenporträt

Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, eds.

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