Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects

Animal, 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,...

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description Animal, 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?
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-271762025-07-30T08:59:40Z Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome object-oriented ontology posthumanism cultural studies materialism thing studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies Animal, 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? 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-03-26 23:55 2020-01-23 14:09:07 2020-04-01T10:44:40Z 2012 book 1004486 OCN: 859753584 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25609 9780615625355 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27176 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25609/1/1004486.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25609/1/1004486.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25609/1/1004486.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25609/1/1004486.pdf punctum books 10.21983/P3.0006.1.00 10.21983/P3.0006.1.00 12970da4-0116-4486-b8be-fc9756703ab1 9780615625355 ScholarLed 295 Brooklyn, NY open access
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cultural studies
materialism
thing studies
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects
title Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects
title_full Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects
title_fullStr Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects
title_full_unstemmed Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects
title_short Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects
title_sort animal vegetable mineral ethics and objects
topic object-oriented ontology
posthumanism
cultural studies
materialism
thing studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
topic_facet object-oriented ontology
posthumanism
cultural studies
materialism
thing studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
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