Enchantment of Modern Life Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics

Name: Enchantment of Modern Life Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics
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ISBN: 9780691088136

ISBN-10: 0691088136

ISBN-13: 9780691088136

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jane Bennett

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It is commonplace that the modern world cannot be thought of as enchanted - this concept belonging to past ages of superstition. Bennett challenges this by showing how to experience wonder, & how this is crucial to motivating ethical behaviour.

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.924



Acknowledgments



The Wonder of Minor Experiences


Queasiness


A Brief Phenomenology of Enchantment


Reuse and Recycle


Enchantment without Design


Joyful Attachment


How the Story Goes



Cross-Species Encounters


Crossings and Enchantment


Andoar's Transcendence


Rotpeter's Way Out


Alex Changes the Subject


Body without Organs


My Wager


Marvels and Monsters



The Marvelous Worlds of Paracelsus, Kant, and Deleuze


The Satyrion Root


Enchantment and Repetition


Kantian Wonders


Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Thinker



Disenchantment Tales


"It's a Calculable World,"



"Disenchantment without Regret,"



"An Ethics of Finitude"



Toward an Enchanted Materialism



Complexity and Enchantment


Thoreau's Nature


Latour's Network


The Return of the Swerve


Lawful Nature as a Regulative Ideal


The Bifurcation Point as a Swerve


Social Complexity and Kafkaesque Enchantment



Commodity Fetishism and Commodity Enchantment


Swinging Khakis


The Dangers of Commodity Culture


The Commodity as Fetish


Marx and the Swerve


The Critical Potential of (Commercial) Art


Affect and Thought


Repetition


Yea Saying


The Limits of Refusal



Ethical Energetics


The Aesthetic Disposition


Moral Sentiments


Aesthetic Play and the Barbarism of Reason


Schiller to Foucault: Micropractices of Ethics


The Dangers of Aestheticization


Language and the Code Dimension of Ethics


The Ethics of Enchanted Materialism



Attachments and Refrains


Enchantment as a Weak Ontology


The Sonorous Cosmos


Attachment as a Gift


Plants, Ants, Robopets, and Other Enchanting Things


Notes


Index