Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects / edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
"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, w...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020 ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Open Access Publishing in European Networks. Directory of Open Access Books
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (311 pages):; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Originally published by Oliphaunt Books; made available as an open access pdf document online by Punctum Books. |
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Table of 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.