a Political Ecology of Things
by Jane Bennett
- Auteur(s)
- Jane Bennett
- Uitgever
- Durham : Duke University, 2010
- Omvang
- 176 p., 22.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780822346333
In Vibrant Matter the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a vital materiality that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett examines the political and theoretical implications of vital materialism through extended discussions of commonplace things and physical phenomena including stem cells, fish oils, electricity, metal, and trash. Along the way, she engages with the concepts and claims of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, disclosing a long history of thinking about vibrant matter in Western philosophy, including attempts by Kant, Bergson, and the embryologist Hans Driesch to name the vital force inherent in material forms. Bennett concludes by sketching the contours of a green materialist ecophilosophy.
- Trefwoorden
- philosophy , ecology
- Stroom project
- De Dingen ; US Multispecies and Miscommunication
- Locatie in de bibliotheek
- Kast 11 - 3: Antropoceen
- Opmerkingen
- Includes notes, index, bibliography
