Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman.
- Author / Editor
- Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman.
- Published
- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
- Physical Description
- vii, 367 pp.
- Description
- An extended essay in "thinking beyond anthropocentrality" by appreciating "lithic" ontology and "geophilia" ("geology without dispassion"), an example of posthumanist, object-oriented consideration that seeks to dislodge assumptions about human/nonhuman binaries. Explores the imagery of, and stories about, rocks, stones, and gems in scriptural, classical, and medieval traditions as they differ from and are, at times, similar to modern geophysical understanding and instrumental views about nature. Includes commentary on Form Age and CT, especially FranT, where Dorigen perceives "lithic agency" in the black rocks.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
Franklin and His Tale
Former Age