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Articles by Jane Bennett
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Edible Matter
in NLR 45, May-June 2007, pp. 133-145
Subjects: Philosophy
Jane Bennett presents a case for seeing matter as actant inside and alongside humankind, able to exert influence on moods, dispositions, decisions. Might food in fact be seen as possessing a form of agency? Vitality and volition in motifs from Thoreau and Nietzsche, viewed through the prism of the biological and physical sciences.
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