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Book Title
Metamorphoses: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming
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ISBN
9780745625775
Subject Area
Philosophy, Social Science
Publication Name
Metamorphoses : Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming
Publisher
Polity Press
Item Length
9.1 in
Subject
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Discrimination & Race Relations, History & Surveys / Modern, Movements / Structuralism
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1 in
Author
Rosi Braidotti
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
328 Pages
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Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-10
0745625770
ISBN-13
9780745625775
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1814835

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
328 Pages
Publication Name
Metamorphoses : Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Subject
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Discrimination & Race Relations, History & Surveys / Modern, Movements / Structuralism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy, Social Science
Author
Rosi Braidotti
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2001-002613
Reviews
"Wonderfully thought provoking, highly stylized, and imaginatively written."Kevin Pelletier, Cultural Critique"Replete with situated, embedded figurations, Metamorphoses is a book to grow with. Emergences, transformations, and materialist becomings of all kinds are the subject of this rich philosophical work. Insects, women, philosophers, cyborgs- promising monsters all, and all are enlisted in drawing up a cartography of becoming. Braidotti writes with enormous energy and style. Never forgetting the subject structured in sexual difference, she searches for figurations that can guide us to emergences more attuned to justice, pleasure, and historical specificity. This book warms my biophilic heart, as it informs my feminist soul and gives pleasure to my embodied mind."Donna J. Haraway, University of California at Santa Cruz, "Wonderfully thought provoking, highly stylized, and imaginatively written." Kevin Pelletier, Cultural Critique "Replete with situated, embedded figurations, Metamorphoses is a book to grow with. Emergences, transformations, and materialist becomings of all kinds are the subject of this rich philosophical work. Insects, women, philosophers, cyborgs - promising monsters all, and all are enlisted in drawing up a cartography of becoming. Braidotti writes with enormous energy and style. Never forgetting the subject structured in sexual difference, she searches for figurations that can guide us to emergences more attuned to justice, pleasure, and historical specificity. This book warms my biophilic heart, as it informs my feminist soul and gives pleasure to my embodied mind." Donna J. Haraway, University of California at Santa Cruz, "Replete with situated, embedded figurations, Metamorphoses is a book to grow with. Emergences, transformations, and materialist becomings of all kinds are the subject of this rich philosophical work. Insects, women, philosophers, cyborgs - promising monsters all, and all are enlisted in drawing up a cartography of becoming. Braidotti writes with enormous energy and style. Never forgetting the subject structured in sexual difference, she searches for figurations that can guide us to emergences more attuned to justice, pleasure, and historical specificity. This book warms my biophilic heart, as it informs my feminist soul and gives pleasure to my embodied mind." Donna J. Haraway, University of California at Santa Cruz
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
305.42/01
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements. Prologue. 1. Becoming Woman or Sexual Difference Revisited. 2. Zig-Zagging Through Deleuze And Feminism. 3. Metamorphoses: Becoming Woman/Animal/Insect. 4. Cyber-Teratologies. 5. Metamorphoses: The Becoming-Machine. Epilogue. Bibliography. Notes. Index.
Synopsis
The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember. They have been especially fierce within feminism. After a brief flirtation with postmodern thinking in the 1980s, mainstream feminist circles seem to have turned their back on the staple notions of poststructuralist philosophy. Metamorphoses takes stock of the situation and attempts to reset priorities within the poststructuralist feminist agenda. Cross-referring in a creative way to Deleuze's and Irigaray's respective philosophies of difference, the book addresses key notions such as embodiment, immanence, sexual difference, nomadism and the materiality of the subject. Metamorphoses also focuses on the implications of these theories for cultural criticism and a redefinition of politics. It provides a vivid overview of contemporary culture, with special emphasis on technology, the monstrous imaginary and the recurrent obsession with 'the flesh' in the age of techno-bodies. This highly original contribution to current debates is written for those who find changes and transformations challenging and necessary. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, feminist theory, gender studies, sociology, social theory and cultural studies., Major new work in feminist theory, cultural theory and gender studies Author is well known in the fields of feminism and post-structuralism and for her work on problems of identity and difference., The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember. They have been especially fierce within feminism. After a brief flirtation with postmodern thinking in the 1980s, mainstream feminist circles seem to have turned their back on the staple notions of poststructuralist philosophy. Metamorphoses takes stock of the situation and attempts to reset priorities within the poststructuralist feminist agenda. Cross-referring in a creative way to Deleuzes and Irigarays respective philosophies of difference, the book addresses key notions such as embodiment, immanence, sexual difference, nomadism and the materiality of the subject. Metamorphoses also focuses on the implications of these theories for cultural criticism and a redefinition of politics. It provides a vivid overview of contemporary culture, with special emphasis on technology, the monstrous imaginary and the recurrent obsession with the flesh in the age of techno-bodies. This highly original contribution to current debates is written for those who find changes and transformations challenging and necessary. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, feminist theory, gender studies, sociology, social theory and cultural studies.
LC Classification Number
HQ1190.B737 2002

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