Stone : an ecology of the inhuman /
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 t...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Contents Introduction: Stories of Stone
- Geophilia: The Love of Stone
- Excursus: The Weight of the Past
- Time: The Insistence of Stone
- Excursus: A Heart Unknown
- Force: The Adventure of Stone
- Excursus: Geologic
- Soul: The Life of Stone
- Afterword: Iceland
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.