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Author Bennett, Tony, 1947- author.

Title Habit's pathways : repetition, power, conduct / Tony Bennett
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) : illustrations
Contents Powering habit -- Dead ends and nonstarters : habit, discipline, biopower, and the circulation of capital -- Unwilled habits. Descending pathways -- Pathways to virtue -- Unfolding pathways : habit, freedom, becoming -- Exploded pathways : plasticity's mentors -- Progressive pathways : the dynamics of modernity, race, and the unconscious -- Contested pathways : habit and the conduct of conduct
Summary "Habit's Pathways considers the intellectual and political histories of habit. Tony Bennett takes great care in analyzing how discourses of habit and the apparatuses that deploy them are bound up in various forms of power. Bennett examines how habits as repetitive patterns of behavior are conjoined with population regulation by authorities and can also reify structures of power. The book returns again and again to the crossroad between "habit then" and "habit now," asking how the ways we think about habit have changed and continue to change. Bennett contextualizes habits through what he calls "architectures of the person": the senses, will, reflex, instinct, the nervous system, brain and consciousness. This focus comes through especially in his engagement with the works of Gilles Deleuze, Bruno Latour, Elizabeth Grosz, Catherine Malabou, and others. Habit's Pathways works at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory, history, and digital media studies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed September 27, 2023)
Subject Habit -- Political aspects
Habit -- Social aspects
Politics and culture.
Political culture.
Power (Philosophy)
Political socialization.
Political sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory.
Political culture
Political socialization
Political sociology
Politics and culture
Power (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022060445
ISBN 1478027339
9781478027331