Discussing New Materialism
Methodological Implications for the Study of Materialities
Editors: Kissmann, Ulrike Tikvah, Van Loon, Joost (Eds.)
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- About this book
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The essays in this volume discuss the various approaches to New Materialism in Sociology and Philosophy. They raise the questions of what New Materialism consists of and whether it in fact should be considered a radical change in Social Theory. Are the ideas of a “material turn”, as the theory is formulated and in its assumptions, foreshadowed by the classical philosophies of Spinoza and Tarde? Do these new approaches bring substantially new perspectives to Social Theory? A further goal of these essays is to formulate the methodological and methodical consequences for its empirical implementation. What conditions must an ethnography of things fulfill if it is to be sufficient? Which participant objects and bodies do the approaches of the various social theories and methodologies include or exclude?
- About the authors
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Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann is Professor of Sociological Methodology of Qualitative Reconstructive Research at the University of Kassel.
Joost van Loon is Professor of General Sociology and Sociological Theory at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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New Materialism and Its Methodological Consequences: An Introduction
Pages 3-18
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What Makes Sensation of a Sentient Thing Possible: The Concept of Time in the Work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Pages 21-37
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Historical Materialism and Actor-Network-Theory
Pages 39-65
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The Cyborg, Its Friends and Feminist Theories of Materiality
Pages 69-86
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“Cutting Together/Apart” – Impulses from Karen Barad’s Feminist Materialism for a Relational Sociology
Pages 87-106
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Discussing New Materialism
- Book Subtitle
- Methodological Implications for the Study of Materialities
- Editors
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- Ulrike Tikvah Kissmann
- Joost Van Loon
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-658-22300-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-658-22300-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-658-22299-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 210
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
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