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1 online resource (341 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: New Materialism: Looking Forward, Looking Back; Novelty: The Status of History; Materiality: Science and Ontology; Politics: Normativity and Political Theory; Notes; References; Part 1 Materialist Prehistories; Chapter 1 Who's Afraid of Inertia? The Cartesian-Newtonian Legacy Reconsidered; A New Descartes?; From Descartes to Newton (to Lucretius); Notes; References; Chapter 2 Varieties of Vital Materialism; Two Materialisms; Passive and Active Matter; Vital Materialism21 |
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NotesReferences; Chapter 3 Plastic Matters; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Deleuze and New Materialism: Naturalism, Norms, and Ethics; A New Materialism?; The Politics of Renaturalization; Deleuze and Naturalism; Deleuze on Spinoza and a New Naturalism; Late Deleuze; Conclusion; Notes; References; Part 2 Humanities and the Sciences of Matter; Chapter 5 Materialism, Old and New, and the Party of Humanity; I; II; III; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Engendering New Materializations: Feminism, Nature, and the Challenge to Disciplinary Proper Objects; Narrating New Materialism |
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A Tale of Two Paradigm Shifts: Or, the Romance of Anti-Essentialist Science and Science-Friendly FeminismThe Gender of Nature: Feminists Theorize the Ostensibly Pre-Cultural; Materialist Methodologies; Re-Narrativizing the Project of New Materialisms; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 7 What Sort of Thing Is the Social? Or, Durkheim and Deleuze on Organization and Infrastructure; New Materialisms; Culture; Society; Machines; Pigs; Beyond Schizophrenia: Capitalism and Infrastructure; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Part 3 Monism, Liveliness, and the Problem of Scale |
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Chapter 8 The Cognitive Nonconscious and the New MaterialismsOntology; Evolution; Survival; Force; Transformation; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 9 Scale Variance and the Concept of Matter; Some Versions of Scale Variance; Scale in Barad and DeLanda; Natura Facit Saltum; Notes; Works Cited; Part 4 The Politics of Ontology; Chapter 10 Detachment Theory: Agency, Nature, and the Normative Nihilism of New Materialism; Introduction; Finality, Form, and Essentialism; Final Cause, Freedom, and Normativity; Detachment, Normativity, and Agency; The Deleuzian Turn and Barad's New Materialism; Notes |
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Works CitedChapter 11 Materialism, Constructivism, and Political Skepticism: Leibniz, Hobbes, and the Erudite Libertines; Materialism and the Political Invention of Religion; The "Too Material Philosophers" and the "Alleged Freethinkers"; Back to the Lab Again: Reconsidering Natural Theology; Conclusion: Is There a Spinozist Escape Route?; Notes; Works Cited; Chapter 12 Normativity Matters: Philosophical Naturalism; The Posthuman Politics of Nature; Two Claims about Normativity; Problems with Normativity; Toward Posthumanist Ethics?; How Not to Avoid the Naturalistic Fallacy |
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The Scales of Normativity |
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Print version record |
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Materialism.
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materialism (philosophical movement)
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Materialism
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Zammito, John H
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| ISBN |
9781351976152 |
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135197615X |
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