Exploring the question of human agency amidst a world teeming with powerful nonhuman influences, Jane Bennett draws upon Whitman, Thoreau, Caillois, Whitehead, and other poetic writers to link a non-anthropocentric model of self to a democratic pluralism and a syntax and style of writing appropriate to the entangled world in which we live.
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Acknowledgments vii
Prologue.Influx and efflux ix
1. Position and Disposition 1
2. Circuits of Sympathy 27
3. Solar Judgment 46
Refrain. The Alchemy of Affects 63
4. Bad Influence 75
5. Thoreau Experiments with Natural Influences 92
Epilogue. A Peculiar Efficacy 113
Notes 119
Bibliography 173
Index 189