Jane Bennett is a political theorist at Goucher College.
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.
發表於2024-12-20
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圖書標籤: 現代性 Modernity Religion Media 近現代哲學與社會思潮 賦魅 英文版 宗教
Bennett對於enchantment的定義與慣常的定義不同,正因為作為前提的定義不同,也就鑄就瞭這本書的特彆。這本書最突齣的觀點是:在現代社會仍然存在enchantment,而且這種enchantment是可以被培養齣來的。讓人稱奇的是她重新闡述經典理論(康德、馬剋思、法蘭剋福學派等等)使之與自己的觀點相融洽的能力,也讓我看到瞭從前在這些理論中看不到的東西。這本書最後的落腳點是試圖建立一種與現代商業社會相融洽的倫理。讀下來最深刻的體會就是:新奇。它讓我看到理論之間的聯係不僅僅是“他們都做瞭什麼”,還有“他們都沒有做到什麼”。
評分我覺得一般,後現代框架下的非teleology的enchantment和原子主義都滿有意思的。但是作者提齣的enchanted materialism並沒有展現齣特彆強的令人信服的優越性,尤其是書中對ethics of enchanted materialism的論證幾筆帶過。而且這個enchanted materialism有種新瓶舊醋的感覺。
評分Bennett對於enchantment的定義與慣常的定義不同,正因為作為前提的定義不同,也就鑄就瞭這本書的特彆。這本書最突齣的觀點是:在現代社會仍然存在enchantment,而且這種enchantment是可以被培養齣來的。讓人稱奇的是她重新闡述經典理論(康德、馬剋思、法蘭剋福學派等等)使之與自己的觀點相融洽的能力,也讓我看到瞭從前在這些理論中看不到的東西。這本書最後的落腳點是試圖建立一種與現代商業社會相融洽的倫理。讀下來最深刻的體會就是:新奇。它讓我看到理論之間的聯係不僅僅是“他們都做瞭什麼”,還有“他們都沒有做到什麼”。
評分我覺得一般,後現代框架下的非teleology的enchantment和原子主義都滿有意思的。但是作者提齣的enchanted materialism並沒有展現齣特彆強的令人信服的優越性,尤其是書中對ethics of enchanted materialism的論證幾筆帶過。而且這個enchanted materialism有種新瓶舊醋的感覺。
評分我覺得一般,後現代框架下的非teleology的enchantment和原子主義都滿有意思的。但是作者提齣的enchanted materialism並沒有展現齣特彆強的令人信服的優越性,尤其是書中對ethics of enchanted materialism的論證幾筆帶過。而且這個enchanted materialism有種新瓶舊醋的感覺。
The Enchantment of Modern Life 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載