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The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics.
By Jane Bennett
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Description
As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 222
- Release Date:
- 2001-07-16
- Publication Date:
- 2001-07-16
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Languages:
- Published: English, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 0691088136
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 312 g
- Height:
- 22.8 cm
- Width:
- 15.2 cm
- Thickness:
- 1.4 cm
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