Informationen zum Autor Jane Bennett Klappentext "This manifesto for a new materialism is an invigorating breath of fresh air. Jane Bennett's eloquent tribute to the vitality and volatility of things is just what we need to revive the humanities and to redraw the parameters of political thought."--Rita Felski, author of "Uses of Literature " Zusammenfassung Theorizes the political agency of things and natural phenomenasuch as trash, food, weather, and electricityto examine how non-human elements exert force on human politics and social relations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii Acknowledgments xxi 1. The Force of Things 1 2. The Agency of Assemblages 20 3. Edible Matter 39 4. A Life of Metal 52 5. Neither Vitalism nor Mechanism 62 6. Stem Cells and the Culture of Life 82 7. Political Ecologies 94 8. Vitality and Self-interest 110 Notes 123 Bibliography 157 Index 171

Autorentext

Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics and Thoreau’s Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild, and an editor of The Politics of Moralizing and In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment.

Klappentext

"This manifesto for a new materialism is an invigorating breath of fresh air. Jane Bennett's eloquent tribute to the vitality and volatility of things is just what we need to revive the humanities and to redraw the parameters of political thought."--Rita Felski, author of "Uses of Literature "

Zusammenfassung
Theorizes the political agency of things and natural phenomena-such as trash, food, weather, and electricity-to examine how non-human elements exert force on human politics and social relations.

Inhalt

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xxi

1. The Force of Things 1
2. The Agency of Assemblages 20
3. Edible Matter 39
4. A Life of Metal 52
5. Neither Vitalism nor Mechanism 62
6. Stem Cells and the Culture of Life 82
7. Political Ecologies 94
8. Vitality and Self-interest 110
   Notes 123
   Bibliography 157
   Index 171