Stone: An Ecology Of The Inhuman Jeffrey Jerome Cohen University Minnesota Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Essays And Literary Reference

Stone Maps The Force Vivacity And Stories Within Our Most Mundane Matter For Too Long Has Served As An Unexamined Metaphor \ Really Real\ : Blunt Factuality Nature\ S Curt Rebuke Yet Medieval Writers Knew That Stones Drop With Fire From Sky Emerge Through Subterranean Lovemaking Of Elements Tumble Along Riverbeds Eden Partner Masons Who Build Worlds Them Such Motion Suggests Ecological Enmeshment Almost Creaturely Mineral Life Although Geological Time Can Leave Us Reeling Jeffrey Jerome Cohen Argues Stone\ Endurance Is Also Invitation To Apprehend World In Other Than Human Terms Never Truly Inert Poses A Profound Challenge Modernity\ Disenchantments Its Agency Undermines Desire Be Separate Environment Bifurcation Renders Nature Out There Mere Resource Recreation Consumption Exploitation Written Great Verve Elegance This Pioneering Work Notable Not Only Interweaving Modern But Major Contribution Ecotheory Comprising Chapters Organized By Concept -\ Geophilia Soul\ -Cohen Seamlessly Brings Together Wide Range Topics Including Potential Transport Humans Into Nonanthropocentric Scales Place Petrification\ Certain Cultures Messages Fossils Bear Architecture Bordeaux Montparnasse Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Disposal Ability Communicate Across Millennia Structures Like Stonehenge Debates Over Whether Reproduce Have Souls Showing What Often Assumed Lifeless Substances Own Restless Forever Fittingly Concludes Taking Iceland Land Writes Author Reminds Water Alive Transient Σελίδες: 376 Διαστάσεις: 14X14Cm