Critical Theory and New Materialisms (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rosa, Hartmut; Bueno, Arthur; Henning, Christoph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together authors from two intellectual traditions that have, so far, generally developed independently of one another - critical theory and new materialism - this book addresses the fundamental differences and potential connections that exist between these two schools of thought.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000400137
• Artikelnr.: 61609952

Autorenporträt

Hartmut Rosa is Professor of Sociology at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is the author of Resonance: A Sociology of the Relationship to the World and Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity and the coeditor of Lost in Perfection: Impacts of Optimisation on Culture and Psyche. Christoph Henning is Philosophy Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany. He is the author of Philosophy after Marx: 100 Years of Misreadings and the Normative Turn in Political Philosophy and the coeditor of The Good life beyond Growth: New Perspectives and Social Capital, Social Identities: From Ownership to Belonging. Arthur Bueno is Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Frankfurt, Visiting Professor at the University of São Paulo and President of the Georg Simmel Gesellschaft in Bielefeld, Germany. He is the author of Economies of Life: Simmel on Money and Art and the coeditor of De-Centering Global Social Theory and Research: The Peripheral Turn in Sociology.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Critical Theory and New Materialisms: Fit, Strain, or Contradiction? Part 1: Nature in/of Critical Theory 2. Comprehending Society's "Other": Nature in Critical Theory 3. Sovereign Territory and the Domination over Nature 4. Resonance and Critical Theory 5. Responsive Encounters: Latour's Modes of Being and the Sociology of World-Relations Part 2: The Powers of Matter, Life, and Affect 6. Power, Affect, Society: Critical Theory and the Challenges of (Neo-)Spinozism 7. Transindividuality: The Affective Continuity of the Social in Spinoza 8. The Paradox of Capacity and the Power of Beauty 9. Life as the Subject of Society: Critical Vitalism as Critical Social Theory 10. Pathology and Vitality: On the Crisis of Modern Life-Forms Part 3: Critique in/of New Materialism 11. Doing Justice to That Which Matters: Subjectivity and the Politics of New Materialism 12. Reading after Barad (and Blumenberg): Diffraction and Human Agency 13. Adventures in Anti-Fascist Aesthetics 14. Visiting Artists with Latour: The Materiality of Artistic Practices and the Claims of Critical Theory 15. Materialism, Energy and Acceleration: New Materialism vs. Critical Theory on the Momentum of Modernity