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Habit's Pathways Repetition, Power, Conduct

Bennett, Tony
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk

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9781478020394
Publisert
2023-09-15
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Duke University Press
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544 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
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P, 06
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Bennett, Tony

Biographical note

Tony Bennett is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University and Honorary Professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. Among his many books are Making Culture, Changing Society and, as coauthor, Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government.

Habit's Pathways Repetition, Power, Conduct

Bennett, Tony
Innbundet / 2023 / Engelsk
Bennett, Tony
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“<i>Habit’s Pathways</i> makes a valuable contribution to discussions and theories of habit in its assemblage and detailed analysis of all the important thinkers on the subject, from Augustine, Kant, and Dewey to Deleuze, Foucault, and Malabou, devising what surely must be the new standard account of habit in contemporary Western thought. A tremendous achievement.”

- Susan Zieger, author of, The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century

“Tony Bennett, one of our most important cultural critics, reckons with the many meanings of habit in an argument that is both wide-ranging and fine-grained. Delving into its intellectual and political histories, he delivers a trenchant and highly illuminating analysis of habit’s relations to freedom and constraint.”

- Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor, University of Virginia,

Habit has long preoccupied a wide range of theologians, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In Habit’s Pathways Tony Bennett explores the political consequences of the varied ways in which habit’s repetitions have been acted on to guide or direct conduct. Bennett considers habit’s uses and effects across the monastic regimens of medieval Europe, in plantation slavery and the factory system, through colonial forms of rule, and within a range of medicalized pathologies. He brings these episodes in habit’s political histories to bear on contemporary debates ranging from its role in relation to the politics of white supremacy to the digital harvesting of habits in practices of algorithmic governance. Throughout, Bennett tracks how habit’s repetitions have been articulated differently across divisions of class, race, and gender, demonstrating that although habit serves as an apparatus for achieving success, self-fulfillment, and freedom for the powerful, it has simultaneously served as a means of control over women, racialized peoples, and subordinate classes.
Les mer
Tony Bennett offers a sweeping political history of habit and its use to govern conduct across a range of past and contemporary regimes of power.
Note on the Text  vii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. Habit—Then and Now  1 1. Powering Habit  19 2. Dead Ends and Nonstarters: Habit, Discipline, Biopower, and the Circulation of Capital  46 3. Unwilled Habits: Descending Pathways  70 4. Pathways to Virtue  97 5. Unfolding Pathways: Habit, Freedom, Becoming  111 6. Exploded Pathways: Plasticity's Mentors  137 7. Progressive Pathways: The Dynamics of Modernity, Race, and the Unconscious  160 8. Contested Pathways: Habit and the Conduct of Conduct  184 Conclusion. The Arbitrariness of Habit  206 Notes  211 References  225 Index  243
Les mer
“Habit’s Pathways makes a valuable contribution to discussions and theories of habit in its assemblage and detailed analysis of all the important thinkers on the subject, from Augustine, Kant, and Dewey to Deleuze, Foucault, and Malabou, devising what surely must be the new standard account of habit in contemporary Western thought. A tremendous achievement.”
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“<i>Habit’s Pathways</i> makes a valuable contribution to discussions and theories of habit in its assemblage and detailed analysis of all the important thinkers on the subject, from Augustine, Kant, and Dewey to Deleuze, Foucault, and Malabou, devising what surely must be the new standard account of habit in contemporary Western thought. A tremendous achievement.”

- Susan Zieger, author of, The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century

“Tony Bennett, one of our most important cultural critics, reckons with the many meanings of habit in an argument that is both wide-ranging and fine-grained. Delving into its intellectual and political histories, he delivers a trenchant and highly illuminating analysis of habit’s relations to freedom and constraint.”

- Rita Felski, John Stewart Bryan Professor, University of Virginia,

Habit has long preoccupied a wide range of theologians, philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, and neuroscientists. In Habit’s Pathways Tony Bennett explores the political consequences of the varied ways in which habit’s repetitions have been acted on to guide or direct conduct. Bennett considers habit’s uses and effects across the monastic regimens of medieval Europe, in plantation slavery and the factory system, through colonial forms of rule, and within a range of medicalized pathologies. He brings these episodes in habit’s political histories to bear on contemporary debates ranging from its role in relation to the politics of white supremacy to the digital harvesting of habits in practices of algorithmic governance. Throughout, Bennett tracks how habit’s repetitions have been articulated differently across divisions of class, race, and gender, demonstrating that although habit serves as an apparatus for achieving success, self-fulfillment, and freedom for the powerful, it has simultaneously served as a means of control over women, racialized peoples, and subordinate classes.
Les mer
Tony Bennett offers a sweeping political history of habit and its use to govern conduct across a range of past and contemporary regimes of power.
Note on the Text  vii Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. Habit—Then and Now  1 1. Powering Habit  19 2. Dead Ends and Nonstarters: Habit, Discipline, Biopower, and the Circulation of Capital  46 3. Unwilled Habits: Descending Pathways  70 4. Pathways to Virtue  97 5. Unfolding Pathways: Habit, Freedom, Becoming  111 6. Exploded Pathways: Plasticity's Mentors  137 7. Progressive Pathways: The Dynamics of Modernity, Race, and the Unconscious  160 8. Contested Pathways: Habit and the Conduct of Conduct  184 Conclusion. The Arbitrariness of Habit  206 Notes  211 References  225 Index  243
Les mer
“Habit’s Pathways makes a valuable contribution to discussions and theories of habit in its assemblage and detailed analysis of all the important thinkers on the subject, from Augustine, Kant, and Dewey to Deleuze, Foucault, and Malabou, devising what surely must be the new standard account of habit in contemporary Western thought. A tremendous achievement.”
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781478020394
Publisert
2023-09-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
544 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet

Forfatter
Bennett, Tony

Biographical note

Tony Bennett is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University and Honorary Professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. Among his many books are Making Culture, Changing Society and, as coauthor, Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government.

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