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"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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Brooklyn, NY : Punctum Books Inc., [2012]
Colección:Publishing in European Networks. Directory of Open Access Books.
Temas:
Anthropomorphism.
Agent (Philosophy)
Animals > Social aspects.
Plants > Social aspects.
Minerals > Social aspects.
Anthropomorphisme.
Animaux > Aspect social.
Minéraux > Aspect social.
anthropomorphism.
Cultural studies.
NATURE > Ecology.
Animals > Social aspects
Anthropomorphism
Plants > Social aspects
Object-oriented ontology, posthumanism, cultural studies, materialism, thing studies
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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