Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects by Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects by Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects

nimal, Mineral, Vegetable examines what happens when we cease to assume that only humans exert agency. Through...
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects by Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects

$62.30
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects by Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects

$62.30
Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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nimal, Mineral, Vegetable 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?

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" - Peggy McCracken: "The Floral and the Human" - Kellie Robertson: "Exemplary Rocks" - Valerie Allen: "Mineral Virtue" - Eileen Joy: "You Are Here: A Manifesto" - Julian Yates: "Sheep Tracks: Multi-Species Impressions" - Julia Reinhard Lupton: "The Renaissance Res Publica of Things" - Jane Bennett: "Powers of the Hoard: Further 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"



Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher: Punctum Books
Published: 05/03/2012
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780615625355

About the Author
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute (MEMSI) at the George Washington University. His research explores what monsters promise; how postcolonial studies, queer theory, postmodernism and posthumanism might help us to better understand the literatures and cultures of the Middle Ages (and might be transformed by that encounter); the limits and the creativity of our taxonomic impulses; the complexities of time when thought outside of progress narratives; and ecotheory. He is the author of three books: "Of Giants: Sex, Monsters and the Middle Ages"; "Medieval Identity Machines"; and "Hybridity, Identity and Monstrosity in Medieval Britain: On Difficult Middles," and is the editor of four more books, including "The Postcolonial Middle Ages."


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