The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and EthicsPrinceton University Press, 2001 M08 5 - 213 pages It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics. |
Contents
The Wonder of Minor Experiences | 3 |
A Brief Phenomenology of Enchantment | 5 |
Reuse and Recycle | 6 |
Enchantment without Design | 9 |
Joyful Attachment | 12 |
How the Story Goes | 13 |
CrossSpecies Encounters | 17 |
Andoars Transcendence | 18 |
Lawful Nature as a Regulative Ideal | 102 |
The Bifurcation Point as a Swerve | 103 |
Social Complexity and Kafkaesque Enchantment | 104 |
Commodity Fetishism and Commodity Enchantment | 111 |
The Dangers of Commodity Culture | 114 |
The Commodity as Fetish | 116 |
Marx and the Swerve | 119 |
The Critical Potential of Commercial Art | 121 |
Rotpeters Way Out | 19 |
Alex Changes the Subject | 21 |
Body without Organs | 24 |
My Wager | 28 |
Marvels and Monsters | 30 |
The Marvelous Worlds of Paracelsus Kant and Deleuze | 33 |
The Satyrion Root | 34 |
Enchantment and Repetition | 36 |
Kantian Wonders | 40 |
BecomingAnimal BecomingThinker | 49 |
Disenchantment Tales | 56 |
Its a Calculable World by Max Weber | 57 |
Disenchantment without Regret by Hans Blumenberg | 65 |
An Ethics of Finitude by Simon Critchley | 75 |
Toward an Enchanted Materialism | 80 |
Complexity and Enchantment | 91 |
Thoreaus Nature | 92 |
Latours Network | 95 |
The Return of the Swerve | 99 |
Affect and Thought | 124 |
Repetition | 126 |
Yea Saying | 127 |
The Limits of Refusal | 128 |
Ethical Energetics | 131 |
Moral Sentiments | 133 |
Aesthetic Play and the Barbarism of Reason | 137 |
Micropractices of Ethics | 144 |
The Dangers of Aestheticization | 148 |
Language and the Code Dimension of Ethics | 152 |
The Ethics of Enchanted Materialism | 156 |
Attachments and Refrains | 159 |
Enchantment as a Weak Ontology | 160 |
The Sonorous Cosmos | 166 |
Attachment as a Gift | 168 |
Plants Ants Robopets and Other Enchanting Things | 169 |
Notes | 175 |
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