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Stone An Ecology of the Inhuman

Name: Stone
Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Auteur: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Engels
Paperback
9780816692620
06 mei 2015
376 pagina's

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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen reminds us in Stone ,that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its owntime, restless and forever in motion. Cohen seamlessly brings together a widerange of topics and invites us to apprehend the world both in geological timeand in other than human terms.

Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the “really real”: blunt factuality, nature’s curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with fire from the sky, emerge through the subterranean lovemaking of the elements, tumble along riverbeds from Eden, partner with the masons who build worlds with them. Such motion suggests an ecological enmeshment and an almost creaturely mineral life.

Although geological time can leave us reeling, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen argues that stone’s endurance is also an invitation to apprehend the world in other than human terms. Never truly inert, stone poses a profound challenge to modernity’s disenchantments. Its agency undermines the human desire to be separate from the environment, a bifurcation that renders nature “out there,” a mere resource for recreation, consumption, and exploitation.

Written with great verve and elegance, this pioneering work is notable not only for interweaving the medieval and the modern but also as a major contribution to ecotheory. Comprising chapters organized by concept —“Geophilia,” “Time,” “Force,” and “Soul”—Cohen seamlessly brings together a wide range of topics including stone’s potential to transport humans into nonanthropocentric scales of place and time, the “petrification” of certain cultures, the messages fossils bear, the architecture of Bordeaux and Montparnasse, Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste disposal, the ability of stone to communicate across millennia in structures like Stonehenge, and debates over whether stones reproduce and have souls.

Showing that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its own time, restless and forever in motion, Stone fittingly concludes by taking us to Iceland⎯a land that, writes the author, “reminds us that stone like water is alive, that stone like water is transient.”

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 06 mei 2015
Aantal pagina's: 376
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Hoofdauteur: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Minnesota Press

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Product breedte: 140 mm
Product hoogte: 20 mm
Product lengte: 216 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 25 mm
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Categorieën: Wetenschap & Natuur

Religie, Spiritualiteit & Filosofie

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Filosofie

Aarde & Milieu

Aardwetenschappen

Algemene & Wereldgeschiedenis

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Taal: Engels
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