Tom Sparrow teaches in the Department of Philosophy at Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, where he works primarily in continental and modern philosophy. He is the author of Levinas Unhinged and The End of Phenomenology: Metaphysics and the New Realism.

Adam Hutchinson is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Duquesne University. His main areas of interest are American pragmatism, the history of materialism, and critical theory (especially questions of race).

Introduction: Reflections on the Unreflected
Part One: Classical Accounts of Moral Habituation
Chapter 1: Habit, Habituation, and Character in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
Chapter 2: The Roman Stoics on Habit
Chapter 3: Aquinas on Habitus
Chapter 4: Negotiating with a New Sovereign: Montaigne's Transformation of Habit into Custom
Part Two: Habits of Thought, Action, and Memory in Modernity
Chapter 5: From Habits to Traces
Chapter 6: Habit, Custom, History and Hume's Critical Philosophy
Chapter 7: Between Freedom and Necessity: Ravaisson on Habit and the Moral Life
Chapter 8: A Moralist in an Age of Scientific Analysis and Skepticism: Habit in the Life and Work of William James
Chapter 9: Habitual Body and Memory in Merleau-Ponty
Part Three: The Application of Habit in Contemporary Theory
Chapter 10: The Fly Wheel of Society: Habit and Social Meliorism in the Pragmatist Tradition
Chapter 11: Oppression in the Gut: The Biological Dimensions of Deweyan Habit
Chapter 12: Conceiving Things: Deleuze, Concepts, and the Habits of Thinking
Chapter 13: Pierre Bourdieu's Habitus