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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.
The chapters in this volume investigate the epistemic and existential relevance of breakdown of habits and the corresponding kinds of self-understanding available to the agent. The first part focuses on the double-sidedness of habitual life. On the one hand, habits allow us to arrange and navigate in a familiar home world; on the other hand, habits can take hold of us in such a way that we lose our sense of autonomy. The contributors argue that habitual agency is structurally carried by a dynamic that entails both freedom and necessity. As habits enable us to inhabit and thus acquire a world, they also affectively provide a texture and a background for our feeling at home in the world. The chapters in Part 2 focus on the breakdowns of our habitual social and technological life forms and the phenomenology of their affective texture. History and habitual learning are sedimented in our body memory and in our language, and these sedimented layers are partly out of our direct control. Part 3 focuses on the structural openness of habits in relating to one’s past and one’s traumatic experiences. Part 4 reflects on the ways in which we might become aware of and thus transform or appropriate our culturally given habits.
Phenomenology of Broken Habits will appeal to researchers and advanced students working in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of psychology.
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Epistemic Relevance of Broken Habits
Bibliography
Part 1 The Double-Sidedness of Habit
1 Me, My (Habitual) Self, and I: A Phenomenological Account of Habitual Identity
1.1 Introduction
1.2 A Phenomenological Account of Habit Formation
1.3 Situated Habit: Resilience, Resistance, and Responsibility
1.3.1 Habitual Identity and Resilience
1.3.2 Habit and Resistance
1.3.3 Habit and Responsibility
1.4 Me, My (Habitual) Self, and I: A Performative Theory of Habit
Notes
Bibliography
2 The Eidetic Phenomenology of Habits According to Paul Ricoeur
2.1 Ricoeur’s Eidetic Phenomenology
2.2 The Paradox of Habits: Between Automatism and Freedom
2.3 Conclusion: The Foundational Structure of Habits
Notes
Bibliography
3 Ideal and Real Habits After Husserl
3.1 Plural Habitus: Concrete Reason in the Tension Between Real and Ideal Habits
3.2 Ideal Habits as Habitus Scientiae
3.3 Habituation: The Real Side of Habits
3.4 Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
4 Intentionality and the Power of Habit
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Definitory Aspects of Habit
4.3 Habit Formation and Reinforcement Learning Systems
4.4 Intentionality and Habits
4.5 Habit Elicitation
4.6 Habit Control
4.7 Intentionality, Goal-Directed Action, and Habit Control
4.8 Summary
References
Part 2 Social and Technological Disruptions of Habitual Life Forms
5 Social Habits and Their Breakdowns
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Habit and Habituation
5.3 Habits and Societies
5.4 Everyday Breaches
5.5 Anomie and Suicide
5.6 Protest and Public Debate
5.7 Conclusion
Notes
References
6 Are You Gaslighting Me?: The Role of Affective Habits in Epistemic Friction
6.1 Introduction
6.2 What Is Gaslighting?
6.3 Physiological and Affective Habits
6.4 Epistemic Habits
6.5 Are You Gaslighting Me?
Notes
References
7 Smart Worlds and Broken Habits: A Contextual Analysis of the Technological Relations of Post-Phenomenology
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Background Ideas: Affordance Spaces and Informational Flows
7.3 Classic Post-Phenomenology and Ihde’s Four Human–technology Relations
7.4 The Embodiment Relation—and a More Contextualized Approach
7.5 Interlude On Aspects of the “World” and Ihde’s Telephone Case
7.6 Interlude On Multistability, Navigation Between Affordances and the Cyborg Relation
7.7 Hermeneutic Relations
7.8 Alterity Relations
7.9 Background Relations
7.10 Verbeek’s “Immersion” Relation
7.11 Verbeek’s “Augmentation Relation”
7.12 Extra-Contextual Information Flows, Hidden Audiences and Context Collapse
7.13 Conclusion
Notes
References
Part 3 Transformative Experiences and the Possibility of New Habits: De-Habituation and Re-Habituation
8 Playing for Life: The Vital Need for Retaining the Plasticity of Habituation
8.1 Living Within Spatiotemporal and Interpersonal Webs
8.2 The Transitional Power of Play
8.3 Playing for Life
Notes
Bibliography
9 Habitual Identity and Transformative Experience in Merleau-Ponty
9.1 Preliminary Remark: Our Relational Being
9.2 Habitual Identity: Individual and Social
9.3 Existence Beyond Habit
9.3.1 Loss and Maladaptation
9.3.2 Transformative Experiences
9.3.3 Decisions
9.4 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
10 A Melancholic Joy: On the Role Habits Play in Nostalgia
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Habitual Body
10.3 Nostalgia and the Function of Habits
10.4 Nostalgic Desynchronisation
10.5 Conclusion: Ageing and the Loss of Habits
Acknowledgement
References
11 It Goes With(out) Saying: The Disruptive Habit of Speaking
Notes
References
Part 4 Cultural Ruptures of Habitual Life
12 Habits and (Un)familiarity: A Political Phenomenology of the “I Can” and the “I Cannot”
12.1 Young’s “Throwing Like a ‘Girl’.”
12.2 Connecting Young and Fanon
12.3 Fanon’s Racial Scheme
12.4 The Habits of Whiteness
12.5 Conclusion
Note
References
13 Intercultural Encounters and Culture Shock: An Anthropological Systematisation of Forms and Dynamics
13.1 Collective Routines—culture as a Habitualised Way of Being
13.2 “We” Groups: Ethnicity as a Cultural Breaking Point
13.3 Cultural Boundaries as a Generator of Identity
13.4 Experiencing the Unfamiliar: Culture Shock as a Break With Habits
13.5 Cultural Fractures and Possible Bridges: A Systematisation of Intercultural Interaction
13.6 Coda
References
14 Habits in Exile: A Genetic Phenomenology of Exile Displacement
14.1 Introduction: Defining Exile
14.2 Displaced Habits
14.3 Exile Displacement
14.4 In-Habiting Place
14.5 Home in Exile
14.6 Conclusion
Notes
References
15 Habits and Bones
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Röntgen
15.3 Flesh
15.4 El Señorito
15.5 Self-Portrait
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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