{"product_id":"new-materialisms-9780822347729","title":"New Materialisms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeading 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Overall, the volume makes a convincing case for the renewal of materialism, in terms of both its theoretical purchase and its radical political potential. It shows, in ways that are often exemplary, that there are rich, and sometimes surprising, resources in the philosophical tradition for renewing materialisms.” - Keith Ansell Pearson, \u003ci\u003eRadical Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“New materialisms offer democratic theory an important opportunity to\u003cbr\u003eregard its own parameters and function – what can be hoped for and why.\u003cbr\u003eAnd Coole and Frost’s volume offers a new view of the human (and the\u003cbr\u003ething) that are well worth regarding. . . .” - Andrew Poe, \u003ci\u003eJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNew Materialisms \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary and in fact interdisciplinary collection in its own right. . . . [T]he work coming out of the material turn is mind-blowing work, both in scholarly and in artistic research, and in art”. - Iris van der Tuin, \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Studies International Forum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The essays collected here—authored by leading political theorists and feminist and cultural critics—examine the ‘choreographies of becoming’ and move beyond constructivism and humanism to track processes of de- and re-materialization. The effect is to scramble habitual categories of thought—active versus passive, inert versus animate, political versus ontological, causality versus spontaneity—and force us to \u003ci\u003ethink\u003c\/i\u003e materiality. As the editors put it, ‘materiality is always something more than “mere” matter: an excess, force, vitality, relationality, or difference that renders matter active, self-creative, productive, unpredictable.’”—\u003cb\u003eBonnie Honig\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eEmergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a strong and timely collection, one that could very well direct future discussions of the ‘new materialisms’ toward an experimental, process-oriented, and politically-engaged ‘new ontology.’”—\u003cb\u003eEllen Rooney\u003c\/b\u003e, Brown University\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNew Materialisms \u003c\/i\u003eis an extraordinary and in fact interdisciplinary collection in its own right. . . . [T]he work coming out of the material turn is mind-blowing work, both in scholarly and in artistic research, and in art”. -- Iris van der Tuin * Women's Studies International Forum *\u003cbr\u003e“New materialisms offer democratic theory an important opportunity to\u003cbr\u003eregard its own parameters and function – what can be hoped for and why.\u003cbr\u003eAnd Coole and Frost’s volume offers a new view of the human (and the\u003cbr\u003ething) that are well worth regarding. . . .” -- Andrew Poe * Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e“Overall, the volume makes a convincing case for the renewal of materialism, in terms of both its theoretical purchase and its radical political potential. It shows, in ways that are often exemplary, that there are rich, and sometimes surprising, resources in the philosophical tradition for renewing materialisms.” -- Keith Ansell Pearson * Radical Philosophy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introducing the New Materialisms \/ Diana Coole and Samantha Frost 1\u003cbr\u003e The Force of Materiality \u003cbr\u003e A Vitalist Stopover on the Way to a New Materialism \/ Jane Bennett 47\u003cbr\u003e Nondialectical Materialism \/ Pheng Cheah 70\u003cbr\u003e The Inertia of Matter and the Generativity of Flesh \/ Diana Coole 92\u003cbr\u003e Impersonal Matter \/ Melissa A. Orlie 116\u003cbr\u003e Political Matters \u003cbr\u003e Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom \/ Elizabeth Grosz 139\u003cbr\u003e Fear and the Illusion of Autonomy \/ Samantha Frost 158\u003cbr\u003e Materialities of Experience \/ William E. Connolly 178\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of \"Life Itself\" and New Ways of Dying \/ Rosi Braidotti 201\u003cbr\u003e Economies of Disruption \u003cbr\u003e The Elusive Material: What the Dog Doesn't Understand \/ Rey Chow 221\u003cbr\u003e Orientations Matter \/ Sara Ahmed 234\u003cbr\u003e Simon de Beauvoir: Engaging Discrepant Materialisms \/ Sonia Kruks 258\u003cbr\u003e The Materialism of Historical Materialism \/ Jason Edwards 281\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 299\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 319\u003cbr\u003e Index 323","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866012037463,"sku":"9780822347729","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822347729.jpg?v=1722276619","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-materialisms-9780822347729","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}