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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Ethics and Objects (Paperback)
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Ethics and Objects (Paperback)
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Loot Price R586
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"Animal, Mineral, Vegetable: Ethics and Objects" 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. Sheep, wolves, camels, flowers,
chairs, magnets, landscapes, refuse and gems are more than mere
objects. They act; they withdraw; they make demands; they connect
within lively networks that might foster a new humanism, or that
might proceed with indifference towards human affairs. Through what
ethics do we respond to these activities and forces? To what
futures do these creatures and objects invite us, especially when
they appear within the texts and cultures of the "distant" past?
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Jeffrey J. Cohen: "Introduction: All Things" -
Karl Steel: "With the World, or Bound to Face the Sky: The Postures
of the Wolf-Child of Hesse" - Sharon Kinoshita: "Animals and the
Medieval Culture of Empire" - Kellie Robertson: "Exemplary Rocks" -
Valerie Allen: "Mineral Virtue" - Peggy McCracken (University of
Michigan): "The Human and the Floral" - Eileen Joy: "You Are Here:
A Manifesto" - Julian Yates: "Sheep Tracks: A Multi-Species
Impression" - Julia Reinhard Lupton: "The Renaissance Res Publica
of Things" - Jane Bennett: "Powers of the Hoard: Notes on Material
Agency" Response Essays: Lowell Duckert, "Speaking Stones, John
Muir, and A Slower (Non)humanities" - Nedda Mehdizadeh, "Ruinous
Monument: Transporting Objects in Herbert's Persepolis" - Jonathan
Gil Harris, "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Twenty Questions"
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