Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
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 explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events. 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. She reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. 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.
Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
评分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
评分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
评分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
评分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
太有营养了,慢慢看
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评分终于(算是)细细的读过 一遍可以开始二刷了。最大的感受是,为了读懂一个康德的理论去读了一个下午的康德相关的理论研究(然而并没有懂),读到了很多名字都叫不出的哲学家写过的概念,合上书想退学去重新读一个本科。
评分ANT (Agent-Network theory) 具有某种政治倾向性的materialism theory, 直觉感觉明明可以很左,但由于物质导向和ecology跟marxism擦身而过
评分很像文献综述一样的论文书籍。作者用了很多大词理论,但是作者也只是将他们的概念复述而已,每天更多的解释,也没有怎样阐发。其实比较一般吧,因为不要喜欢外国论文里这种概念堆积的方式。 她提出了自己的观点,但是阐述时用的全是别人观点,很像复制粘贴。就这样。 但是可以从这本书了解到丰富的思想脉络。
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