Animal, vegetable, mineral : ethics and objects / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. [electronic resource]
Material type: TextSeries: Publishing in European Networks. Directory of Open Access BooksPublication details: Brooklyn, NY : Punctum Books Incorporated, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (311 pages : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780615625355
- 0615625355
- BD450
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Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | URL | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Online Book | G. Allen Fleece Library Online | Non-fiction | BD450 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Link to resource | Available | ocn859753584 |
Originally published by Oliphaunt Books; made available as an open access pdf document online by Punctum Books.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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
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