A History of Habit
From Aristotle to Bourdieu
From bookshelves overflowing with self-help books to scholarly treatises on neurobiology to late-night infomercials that promise to make you happier, healthier, and smarter with the acquisition of just a few simple practices, the discourse of habit is a staple of contemporary culture high and low. Discussion of habit, however, tends to neglect the most fundamental questions: What is habit? Habits, we say, are hard to break. But what does it mean to break a habit? Where and how do habits take root in us? Do only humans acquire habits? What accounts for the strength or weakness of a habit? Are habits something possessed or something that posses…
Mehr
CHF 135.00
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V104:
Folgt in ca. 10 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Sparrow, Tom (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7391-8198-0
- EAN: 9780739181980
- Produktnummer: 14661031
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.3 cm 658 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 658
Über den Autor
Tom Sparrow teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, where he works primarily in continental and modern philosophy. He is the author of Levinas Unhinged and The End of Phenomenology: Metaphysics and the New Realism. Adam Hutchinson is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Duquesne University. His main areas of interest are American pragmatism, the history of materialism, and critical theory (especially questions of race).
2 weitere Werke von Adam (Hrsg.) Hutchinson:
Bewertungen
Anmelden