Thinking in the World: A Reader

by Jill Bennett (Editor), Mary Zournazi (Editor)

Overview

Engaging with contemporary issues responsibly and creatively can become a very abstract activity. We can sometimes find ourselves talking in terms of theories and philosophies which bear very little resemblance to how life is actually lived and experienced. In Thinking in the World, Jill Bennett and Mary Zournazi curate writings and conversations with some of the most influential thinkers in the world and ask them not just why we should engage with the world ,but also how we might do this. Rather than simply thinking about the world, the authors examine the ways in which we think in and with the world. Whether it's how to be environmentally responsible, how to think in film, or how to dance with a non-human, the need to engage meaningfully in a lived way is at the forefront of this collection.

Thinking in the World showcases some of the most compelling arguments for a philosophy in action. Including wholly original, never-before-released material from Michel Serres, Alphonso Lingis, and Mieke Bal, the different chapters in this book constitute dialogues and approachable essays, as well as impassioned arguments for a particular way of approaching thinking in the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350069244
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/26/2019
Series:	Thinking in the World
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jill Bennett is Professor of Visual Culture and Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia. Her books include World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time (2003), Empathic Vision (2005), Practical Aesthetics (I.B. Tauris, 2012) and New Media Art and Living in the Anthropocene (2013).

Mary Zournazi is an Australian writer and philosopher. She teaches at the University of New South Wales, Australia and is the author of several books, including Hope - New Philosophies for Change (2003), Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception (I.B. Tauris, 2013). Her book Keywords to War (2008) was made into a radio documentary for ABC Radio National in Australia, and it was nominated for the Australian UN Media Peace Prize in 2008.
Jill Bennett is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia and Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow. She is Founding Director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts and of The Big Anxiety Festival; and is part of the leadership team of the Ageing Futures Institute.
Mary Zournazi is an Australian author, philosopher and filmmaker. She is the author of several books, including Hope: New Philosophies for Change (2003), Keywords to War (2008) and Inventing Peace (2013) with the German filmmaker Wim Wenders. She wrote, directed and filmed the documentary films Dogs of Democracy (2017) and Rembetika Blues (2020). She currently teaches in the sociology program at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction. Thinking in the world
Jill Bennett (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Mary Zournazi (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Part 1. Thinking worlds
Chapter 1. Revolutions in thinking
Michel Serres (Stanford University, USA) and Mary Zournazi
Chapter 2. The thinking that is in the world
Alphonso Lingis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Part II. Senses of place
Chapter 3. A phenomenology of thinking in place
Edward Casey (SUNY, Stony Book, USA) and Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Chapter 4. Attunement as architectural meaning
Alberto Perez-Gomez (McGill University, Canada)

Part III. Extended minds and bodies
Chapter 5. Embodying thought in skilful action
John Sutton (Macquarie University, Australia), Doris McIlwain (Macquarie University, Australia), Wayne Christensen (University of Warwick, UK) and Andrew Geeves (Independent Scholar, Australia)
Chapter 6. What does the stick do for the blind?
Lambros Malafouris (University of Oxford, UK)

Part IV. Technologies
Chapter 7. The distributed-centered subject
Hélène Mialet (York University, Canada)
Chapter 8. Dancing with the nonhuman
Petra Gemeinboeck (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Part V. Creativity
Chapter 9. Thinking in film
Mieke Bal (Emeritus Professor, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Chapter 10. Thinking through the cello
Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Chapter 11. Aesthetic intelligence
Jill Bennett and Lynn Froggett (University of Central Lancashire, UK)

Part VI. Spectrums of experience
Chapter 12. Reading Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony with autist Jamie Burke, or remembering the sensorimotor future
Ralph James Savarese (Grinnell College, USA)
Chapter 13. The philosophical role of illness
Havi Carel (University of Bristol, UK)

Part VII. Economies, ecologies, politics
Chapter 14. Thinking love and politics in the world
Michael Hardt (Duke University, USA) and Mary Zournazi
Chapter 15. Thinking with interdependence: from economy/environment to ecological livelihoods
Ethan Miller (Bates College, Maine, USA) and J.K. Gibson-Graham (Western Sydney University, Australia)

Editorial Reviews

Here is a book to help us understand the ways we and the world are mutually obliged. A book leading us toward the ecological sensibility that we must learn quickly from the lively world that, for the moment, continues to host us.” —Ross Gibson, Centenary Professor of Creative & Cultural Research, University of Canberra, Australia

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