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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tony BennettPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.544kg ISBN: 9781478020394ISBN 10: 1478020393 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 15 September 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsNote on the Text vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Habit—Then and Now 1 1. Powering Habit 19 2. Dead Ends and Nonstarters: Habit, Discipline, Biopower, and the Circulation of Capital 46 3. Unwilled Habits: Descending Pathways 70 4. Pathways to Virtue 97 5. Unfolding Pathways: Habit, Freedom, Becoming 111 6. Exploded Pathways: Plasticity's Mentors 137 7. Progressive Pathways: The Dynamics of Modernity, Race, and the Unconscious 160 8. Contested Pathways: Habit and the Conduct of Conduct 184 Conclusion. The Arbitrariness of Habit 206 Notes 211 References 225 Index 243Reviews“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 thought. A tremendous achievement.” -- Susan Zieger, author of * The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century * 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 thought. A tremendous achievement. --Susan Zieger, author of The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century 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 thought. A tremendous achievement. -- Susan Zieger, author of * The Mediated Mind: Affect, Ephemera, and Consumerism in the Nineteenth Century * Author InformationTony 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |