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Informationen zum Autor Terrance MacMullan is professor of philosophy at Eastern Washington University. Dennis Des Chene is professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Physiologia: Philosophy of Nature in Descartes and the Aristotelians; Life’s Form, Late Aristotelian Conceptions of the Soul; and Spirits and Clocks: Machine and Organism in Descartes. Klappentext A History of Habitat: From Aristotle to Bourdieu is the first of its kind to trace the history of the concept of habit in the Western philosophical tradition, including its classical, modern, and contemporary expressions. Each essay is written by a specialist and conveys the historical continuity between its central figure and those who came before, so it will be of value to anyone interested in how habit figures into the conceptual histories of philosophy, psychology, sociology, political theory, and literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Reflections on the Unreflected Part One: Classical Accounts of Moral Habituation Chapter 1: Habit, Habituation, and Character in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics Chapter 2: The Roman Stoics on Habit Chapter 3: Aquinas on Habitus Chapter 4: Negotiating with a New Sovereign: Montaigne's Transformation of Habit into Custom Part Two: Habits of Thought, Action, and Memory in Modernity Chapter 5: From Habits to Traces Chapter 6: Habit, Custom, History and Hume's Critical Philosophy Chapter 7: Between Freedom and Necessity: Ravaisson on Habit and the Moral Life Chapter 8: A Moralist in an Age of Scientific Analysis and Skepticism: Habit in the Life and Work of William James Chapter 9: Habitual Body and Memory in Merleau-Ponty Part Three: The Application of Habit in Contemporary Theory Chapter 10: The Fly Wheel of Society: Habit and Social Meliorism in the Pragmatist Tradition Chapter 11: Oppression in the Gut: The Biological Dimensions of Deweyan Habit Chapter 12: Conceiving Things: Deleuz ...
