New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics

by Jane Bennett, Professor Pheng Cheah, Melissa A Orlie, and Professor Elizabeth Grosz

Diana Coole (Editor) and Samantha Frost (Editor)

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New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances in scientific knowledge to address pressing ethical and political challenges. In the introduction, Diana Coole and Samantha Frost highlight common themes among the distinctive critical projects that comprise the new materialisms. The continuities they discern include a posthumanist conception of matter as lively or exhibiting agency,...Read more
  • ISBN10 0822347725
  • ISBN13 9780822347729
  • Publish Date 9 September 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Duke University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 352
  • Language English