Habit's Pathways by Tony Bennett

Habit's Pathways by 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. Bennett considers habits 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.

“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 thoughtA 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

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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ISBN 13	9781478024989
ISBN 10	1478024984
Title	Habit's Pathways
Author	Tony Bennett
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2023-09-15
Number of pages	272
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