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Title Animal, vegetable, mineral : ethics and objects / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.

Publication Info. Brooklyn, NY : Punctum Books Inc., [2012]

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Description 1 online resource (311 pages : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
text file
Series Publishing in European Networks. Directory of Open Access Books
Publishing in European Networks. Directory of Open Access Books.
Note Originally published by Oliphaunt Books; made available as an open access pdf document online by Punctum Books.
Contents With the world, or bound to face the sky: the postures of the wolf-child of Hesse / Karl Steel -- Animals and the medieval culture of empire / Sharon Kinoshita -- The floral and the human / Peggy McCracken -- Exemplary rocks / Kellie Robertson -- Mineral virtue / Valerie Allen -- You are here: a manifesto / Eileen A. Joy -- Sheep tracks: a multi-species impression / Julian Yates -- The renaissance res publica of furniture / Julia Reinhard Lupton -- Powers of the hoard: further notes on material agency / Jane Bennett -- Response essays: Speaking stones, John Muir, and a slower (non)humanities / Lowell Duckert -- 'Ruinous monument': transporting objects in Herbert's Persepolis / Nedda Mehdizadeh -- Animal, vegetable, mineral: twenty questions / Jonathan Gil Harris.
Summary "This volume examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through a careful examination of medieval, early modern and contemporary lifeworlds, these essays collectively argue against ecological anthropocentricity"--Page 4 of cover
Note Contents viewed on (Sept. 26, 2013); title from pdf title page.
Language English.
Subject Anthropomorphism.
Agent (Philosophy)
Animals -- Social aspects.
Plants -- Social aspects.
Minerals -- Social aspects.
Anthropomorphisme.
Animaux -- Aspect social.
Minéraux -- Aspect social.
anthropomorphism.
Cultural studies.
NATURE -- Ecology.
Agent (Philosophy)
Animals -- Social aspects
Anthropomorphism
Plants -- Social aspects
Indexed Term Object-oriented ontology, posthumanism, cultural studies, materialism, thing studies
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Animal, vegetable, mineral. Washington, D.C. : Oliphaunt Books, 2012. 295 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Call number of original: BD450 (OCoLC)794280340
ISBN 9780615625355 (paperback)
0615625355 (paperback)
Standard No. 9780615625355
10.21983/P3.0006.1.00 doi
GBVCP 827335202

 
    
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