| Description |
1 online resource (311 pages : illustrations). |
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text file |
| Series |
Open Access Publishing in European Networks. Directory of Open Access Books
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| Note |
Originally published by Oliphaunt Books; made available as an open access pdf document online by Punctum Books. |
| 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. |
| 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"--Page 4 of cover. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Anthropomorphism.
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Anthropomorphism. |
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Agent (Philosophy) |
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Animals -- Social aspects.
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Animals -- Social aspects. |
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Plants -- Social aspects.
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Plants -- Social aspects. |
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Plants. |
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Minerals -- Social aspects.
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Minerals. |
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Social aspects. |
| Indexed Term |
Object-oriented ontology, posthumanism, cultural studies, materialism, thing studies |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Animal, vegetable, mineral. Washington, D.C. : Oliphaunt Books, 2012. 295 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Call number of original: BD450 (OCoLC)794280340 |
| ISBN |
9780615625355 |
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0615625355 |
| Standard No. |
9780615625355 |
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10.21983/P3.0006.1.00 |
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