<p>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 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.</p>

The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics.

Politics & Social Sciences

Jane Bennett

Philosophy

Princeton University Press

WARNING! THIS BOOK CAN ONLY BE ORDERED NEW FROM THE PUBLISHER. ANY OTHER OFFERS OF 'NEW' ARE FRAUDULENT. 20% OFF Publisher's Holiday Special. The gold mine that save a town. 2nd printing. For more than a century, the Bachelor Mine was one of the most reliable producers in the Ouray area. Bennett's book is the only history of Ouray's famous Gold Hill. With a Foreword by Fort Lewis College historian, Duane Smith. Well researched, with maps, plats, topographical representations, and over 200 historical photographs. Bennett's book explores Ouray mining history, area geology, and how the miners lived and worked. 6″x9″ Soft cover, color. 122 pgs. Illustrated with Index and List of Illustrations. ISBN: 978-0-9771376-0-2. Review, http://www.sanjuanpub.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Jane_Bennett_one_sheet.pdf

Tales of the Bachelor Mine

History

Americas

San Juan Publishing

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Karen Pickering

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Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

Gazelle Distribution

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