Habit's Pathways
Repetition, Power, Conduct
1st Edition
Published on 28. August 2023
280 pages
978-1-4780-2733-1 (ISBN)
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Tony Bennett offers a sweeping political history of habit and its use to govern conduct across a range of past and contemporary regimes of power.
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09/2023
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Tony 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.
Content
Note 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 243
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 243
