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This volume explores the phenomenology of broken habits and their affective, social, and involuntary dimensions. It shows how disruptive experiences impact self-understanding and social embeddedness.
List of contents
Introduction: The Epistemic Relevance of Broken Habits
Line Ryberg Ingerslev and Karl Mertens Part 1: The Double-Sidedness of Habit 1. Me, My (Habitual) Self, and I: A Phenomenological Account of Habitual Identity
Maren Wehrle 2. The Eidetic Phenomenology of Habits According to Paul Ricœur
Luz Ascarate 3. Ideal and Real Habits after Husserl
Emanuele Caminada 4. Intentionality and the Power of Habit
Johannes S. Hewig Part 2: Social and Technological Disruptions of Habitual Life Forms 5. Social Habits and their Breakdowns
Nick Crossley 6. Are You Gaslighting Me? The Role of Affective Habits in Epistemic Friction
Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic 7. Smart Worlds and Broken Habits: A Contextual Analysis of the Technological Relations of Post-phenomenology
Maria Brincker Part 3: Transformative Experiences and the Possibility of New Habits. De-habituation and Re-habituation 8. Playing for Life: The Vital Need of Retaining the Plasticity of Habituation
Kirsten Jacobson 9. Habitual Identity and Transformative Experience in Merleau-Ponty
Jacub ¿apek 10. A Melancholic Joy: On the Role Habits Play in Nostalgia
Dylan Trigg 11. It Goes With(out) Saying: The Disruptive Habit of Speaking
Dorothée Legrand Part 4: Cultural Ruptures of Habitual Life 12. Habits and (Un)Familiarity: A Political Phenomenology of the "I can" and the "I cannot"
Gerhard Thonhauser 13. Intercultural Encounters and Culture Shock: An Anthropological Systematisation of Forms and Dynamics
Christoph Antweiler 14. Habits in Exile: A Genetic Phenomenology of Exile Displacement
Marco Cavallaro 15. Habits and Bones
Roland Breeur
About the author
Line Ryberg Ingerslev is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She works on weaker forms of agency, enduring we-identities and collective memory.
Karl Mertens is Professor in Philosophy and holds the Chair for Practical Philosophy at the Julius-Maximilian University, Würzburg. Mertens specializes in questions of normativity, agency, and the phenomenology of action.
Summary
This volume explores the phenomenology of broken habits and their affective, social, and involuntary dimensions. It shows how disruptive experiences impact self-understanding and social embeddedness.
