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28%OFFJane Bennett - The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics - 9780691088136 - V9780691088136
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The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics

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Description for The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics Paperback. 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. This title challenges that view. It seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is possible to experience wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 halftones, 3 illus. BIC Classification: HPN; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334.
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. As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Weight
337g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691088136
SKU
V9780691088136
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About Jane Bennett
Jane Bennett is a political theorist at Goucher College. Her most recent book is Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild, and she is the coeditor of In the Nature of Things: Language, Politics, and the Environment.

Reviews for The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics
The Enchantment of Modern Life has something very rare in an academic work: a mission. Even rarer, its sense of mission comes at no one's expense. The project is at once scholarly and ethical, seamlessly, integrally. This is not just another treatment of modernity. It is an exemplar, offering a gentle cure-a modernity of wonder-to the critical-cynical detachment that has ... Read more

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