圖書標籤: 哲學 生態 Jane_Bennett 文化研究、哲學理論 philosophy 藝術理論 藝術 自然
发表于2025-02-11
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In "Vibrant Matter" the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman forces in events. Toward that end, she theorizes a 'vital materiality' that runs through and across bodies, both human and nonhuman. Bennett explores how political analyses of public events might change were we to acknowledge that agency always emerges as the effect of ad hoc configurations of human and nonhuman forces. She suggests that recognizing that agency is distributed this way, and is not solely the province of humans, might spur the cultivation of a more responsible, ecologically sound politics: a politics less devoted to blaming and condemning individuals than to discerning the web of forces affecting situations and events. Bennett examines the political and theoretical implications of vital materialism through extended discussions of commonplace things and physical phenomena including stem cells, fish oils, electricity, metal, and trash. She reflects on the vital power of material formations such as landfills, which generate lively streams of chemicals, and omega-3 fatty acids, which can transform brain chemistry and mood. Along the way, she engages with the concepts and claims of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Darwin, Adorno, and Deleuze, disclosing a long history of thinking about vibrant matter in Western philosophy, including attempts by Kant, Bergson, and the embryologist Hans Driesch to name the 'vital force' inherent in material forms. Bennett concludes by sketching the contours of a 'green materialist' ecophilosophy.
Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
沒讀懂,但是不太喜歡她的文風,以後找機會再讀一次吧
評分以ontological monism立場挑戰人類中心主義所預設的主客二元,並藉由政治-生態的類比來勾勒“物的政治生態學”。開篇便聲明要懸擱“人”的問題,而這一去中心化姿態恰恰使全書在勾勒vibrant matter時不得不在離心與嚮心之間反復。作者對此的辯護主要訴諸於擬人化修辭的倫理價值(即通過修辭進一步提示人與物的親緣性),但由於Bennett堅持vital materialism要與historical materialism劃清界限,這種flat ontology無法也無意處理與“物的人化”恰成鏡像的“人的物化”,很難說是否會導齣flat ethics & politics。
評分沒讀懂,但是不太喜歡她的文風,以後找機會再讀一次吧
評分核心還是延續瞭德勒茲的“本體一元論但有多重形式”,但似乎又更接近Bogost討論的,equally ontological yet not ontologically equal。Bennett雖然力爭提升物質的位置,但是似乎還是在anthropocentric scope中談論matter matters,她僅是告訴我們物質也很重要的一部分,僅此而已,不激進,也不徹底。書是很有參考意義,但是我還是不能接受關於anthropomorphism作為一種摺中路徑。另外的思考是,必然性是會導嚮階級?隻有偶然性不可預測,纔能導嚮民主?
評分太有營養瞭,慢慢看
Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
評分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
評分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
評分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
評分Critical Case Study Review Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things In traditional thoughts, politics belongs to the concern of men, precisely so in the polis from the Classical world (e.g., Aristotle 1995). Although more recent literature on politics ...
Vibrant Matter pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2025