ISBN:
9781478024989
,
9781478020394
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 255 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bennett, Tony, 1947- Habit's pathways
Keywords:
Habit Political aspects
;
Habit Social aspects
;
Politics and culture
;
Political culture
;
Power (Philosophy)
;
Political socialization
;
Political sociology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory
Abstract:
"Habit's Pathways considers the intellectual and political histories of habit. Tony Bennett takes great care in analyzing how discourses of habit and the apparatuses that deploy them are bound up in various forms of power. Bennett examines how habits as repetitive patterns of behavior are conjoined with population regulation by authorities and can also reify structures of power. The book returns again and again to the crossroad between "habit then" and "habit now," asking how the ways we think about habit have changed and continue to change. Bennett contextualizes habits through what he calls "architectures of the person": the senses, will, reflex, instinct, the nervous system, brain and consciousness. This focus comes through especially in his engagement with the works of Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Elizabeth Grosz, Catherine Malabou, and others. Habit's Pathways works at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, history, and digital media studies"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Powering habit -- Dead ends and non-starters : habit, discipline, biopower and the circulation of capital -- Un-willing habit : descending pathways -- Pathways to virtue -- Unfolding pathways : habit, freedom, becoming -- Exploded pathways : plasticity's mentors -- Progressive pathways : the dynamics of modernity, race and the unconscious -- Contested pathways : habit and the conduct of conduct.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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