1st Edition
Phenomenology of Broken Habits Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Habitual Action
Introduction: The epistemic relevance of broken habits Line Ryberg Ingerslev and Karl Mertens
Part 1: The double-sidedness of habit
1. Me, my (habitual) self, and I: A phenomenological account of habitual identity Maren Wehrle
2. The eidetic phenomenology of habits according to Paul Ricœur Luz Ascarate
3. Ideal and real habits after Husserl Emanuele Caminada
4. Intentionality and the power of habit Johannes S. Hewig
Part 2: Social and technological disruptions of habitual life forms
5. Social habits and their breakdowns Nick Crossley
6. Are you gaslighting me? The role of affective habits in epistemic friction Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic
7. Smart worlds and broken habits: A contextual analysis of the technological relations of post-phenomenology Maria Brincker
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 Kirsten Jacobson
9. Habitual identity and transformative experience in Merleau-Ponty Jakub Čapek
10. A melancholic joy: On the role habits play in nostalgia Dylan Trigg
11. It goes with(out) saying: The disruptive habit of speaking Dorothée Legrand
Part 4: Cultural ruptures of habitual life
12. Habits and (un)familiarity: A political phenomenology of the “I Can” and the “I Cannot” Gerhard Thonhauser
13. Intercultural encounters and culture shock: An anthropological systematisation of forms and dynamics Christoph Antweiler
14. Habits in exile: A genetic phenomenology of exile displacement Marco Cavallaro
15. Habits and bones Roland Breeur
Biography
Line Ryberg Ingerslev is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She works on weaker forms of agency, enduring we-identities and collective memory.
Karl Mertens is Professor in Philosophy and holds the Chair for Practical Philosophy at the Julius-Maximilian University, Würzburg. Mertens specializes in questions of normativity, agency, and the phenomenology of action.
