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New materialisms : ontology, agency, and politics / Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, eds.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Materialism.
- Ontology.
- Agent (Philosophy).
- Materialism--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (348 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introducing the new materialisms / Diana Coole and Samantha Frost
- The force of materiality : a vitalist stopover on the way to a new materialism / Jane Bennett
- Nondialectical materialism / Pheng Cheah
- The inertia of matter and the generativity of flesh / Diana Coole
- Impersonal matter / Melissa A. Orlie
- Political matters : feminism, materialism, and freedom / Elizabeth Grosz
- Fear and the illusion of autonomy / Samantha Frost
- Materialities of experience / William E. Connolly
- The politics of "life itself" and new ways of dying / Rosi Braidotti
- Economies of disruption : the elusive material : what the dog doesn't understand / Rey Chow
- Orientations matter / Sara Ahmed
- Simone de Beauvoir: engaging discrepant materialisms / Sonia Kruks
- The materialism of historical materialism / Jason Edwards.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-06565-7
- 9786613065650
- 0-8223-9299-2
- OCLC:
- 662618464
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