Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: New Materialism: Looking Forward, Looking Back -- Novelty: The Status of History -- Materiality: Science and Ontology -- Politics: Normativity and Political Theory -- Notes -- References -- Part 1 Materialist Prehistories -- Chapter 1 Who's Afraid of Inertia? The Cartesian-Newtonian Legacy Reconsidered -- A New Descartes? -- From Descartes to Newton (to Lucretius) -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Varieties of Vital Materialism -- Two Materialisms -- Passive and Active Matter -- Vital Materialism21 -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Plastic Matters -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Deleuze and New Materialism: Naturalism, Norms, and Ethics -- A New Materialism? -- The Politics of Renaturalization -- Deleuze and Naturalism -- Deleuze on Spinoza and a New Naturalism -- Late Deleuze -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part 2 Humanities and the Sciences of Matter -- Chapter 5 Materialism, Old and New, and the Party of Humanity -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Engendering New Materializations: Feminism, Nature, and the Challenge to Disciplinary Proper Objects -- Narrating New Materialism -- A Tale of Two Paradigm Shifts: Or, the Romance of Anti-Essentialist Science and Science-Friendly Feminism -- The Gender of Nature: Feminists Theorize the Ostensibly Pre-Cultural -- Materialist Methodologies -- Re-Narrativizing the Project of New Materialisms -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 What Sort of Thing Is the Social? Or, Durkheim and Deleuze on Organization and Infrastructure -- New Materialisms -- Culture -- Society -- Machines -- Pigs -- Beyond Schizophrenia: Capitalism and Infrastructure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part 3 Monism, Liveliness, and the Problem of Scale