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New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of
early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and
inert. Instead it gives weight to topics often overlooked in such
accounts: agency, vitalism, complexity, contingency, and
self-organization. This collection, which includes an international
roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature, and
science, is the first to ask what is "new" about the new
materialism and place it in interdisciplinary perspective. Against
current theories of new materialism it argues for a deeper
engagement with materialism's history, questions whether matter can
be "lively," and asks whether new materialism's wish to revitalize
politics and the political lives up to its promise. Contributors:
Keith Ansell-Pearson, Sarah Ellenzweig, Christian J. Emden, N.
Katherine Hayles, Jess Keiser, Mogens Laerke, Ian Lowrie, Lenny
Moss, Angela Willey, Catherine Wilson, Charles T. Wolfe, Derek
Woods, and John H. Zammito.
New materialism challenges the mechanistic models characteristic of
early modern philosophy that regarded matter as largely passive and
inert. Instead it gives weight to topics often overlooked in such
accounts: agency, vitalism, complexity, contingency, and
self-organization. This collection, which includes an international
roster of contributors from philosophy, history, literature, and
science, is the first to ask what is "new" about the new
materialism and place it in interdisciplinary perspective. Against
current theories of new materialism it argues for a deeper
engagement with materialism's history, questions whether matter can
be "lively," and asks whether new materialism's wish to revitalize
politics and the political lives up to its promise. Contributors:
Keith Ansell-Pearson, Sarah Ellenzweig, Christian J. Emden, N.
Katherine Hayles, Jess Keiser, Mogens Laerke, Ian Lowrie, Lenny
Moss, Angela Willey, Catherine Wilson, Charles T. Wolfe, Derek
Woods, and John H. Zammito.
"The Fringes of Belief" is the first literary study of freethinking
and religious skepticism in the English Enlightenment. Ellenzweig
aims to redress this scholarly lacuna, arguing that a literature of
English freethinking has been overlooked because it unexpectedly
supported aspects of institutional religion. Analyzing works by
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, and
Alexander Pope, she foregrounds a strand of the English
freethinking tradition that was suspicious of revealed religion yet
often strongly opposed to the open denigration of Anglican
Christianity and its laws. By exposing the contradictory and
volatile status of categories like belief and doubt this book
participates in the larger argument in Enlightenment studies--as
well as in current scholarship on the condition of modernity more
generally---that religion is not so simply left behind in the shift
from the pre-modern to the modern world.
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