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Animal, vegetable, mineral : ethics and objects / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
- Title
- Animal, vegetable, mineral : ethics and objects / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
- Publication
- Washington, DC : Oliphaunt Books, 2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome
- Description
- 295 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
- 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"--Back cover.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780615625355
- 0615625355
- OCLC
- 794280340
- SCSB-11908404
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library