{"product_id":"stone-9780816692620","title":"Stone","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Jerome Cohen reminds us in \u003ci\u003eStone\u003c\/i\u003e, that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its own time, restless and forever in motion. Cohen seamlessly brings together a wide range of topics and invites us to apprehend the world both in geological time and in other than human terms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A poignant and poetic book, \u003ci\u003eStone\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative contribution to anthropocene studies. Rather than naming humans as agents endowed with geologic force, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen contemplates our anxious collaboration with lithic matter that outlasts and eludes us. Stone is a must-read for anyone interested in rethinking the anthropocene within the geologic turn in literary and cultural studies.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Stephanie LeMenager, University of Oregon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If our historic engagement with stone is the story of cave painting, toolmaking, and home building, Cohen wants to recover a secret history that moves beyond such utilitarian domination. His version is about collaboration and gregarious commingling between humans and stones.\"—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gorgeous lovesong to lithic form, narrative endurance, and the urgent need to connect.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Bookfish:Thalassology, Shakespeare, and Swimming\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Rendered eloquently, Cohen’s text is a useful attempt at crafting a unique theoretical framework for challenging assumptions about the differences between humans and nature.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ranging between the poetic and the pedantic, heroically imagining beyond its academic constraints, \u003ci\u003eStone: An Ecology of the Inhuman\u003c\/i\u003e presents a unique history that is central to some of our most urgent ecological concerns.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An elegantly structured, stylistically-rich study in theory and criticism.\"—SubStance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStone \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautifully written book that moves from scholarly engagement with medieval texts to more contemporary issues and ideas, as well as a deal of personal material, and etymological musings.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jeffrey Jerome Cohen offers a poetically charged account of stone as uncannily lively substance, the necessary ground for any articulation of ecological (and ethical) figures.\"—\u003ci\u003eSymploke 24\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"a profound exploration of a fascinating topic, one that helps me in my own thinking on ecology and materiality, and one that may well stand the test of lithic time.\"—KronoScope\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Renders a usually inanimate and unchanging world both vivid and vibrant.\"—\u003ci\u003eEnvironmental History \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Stories of Stone \u003cbr\u003eGeophilia: The Love of Stone\u003cbr\u003eExcursus: The Weight of the Past\u003cbr\u003eTime: The Insistence of Stone\u003cbr\u003eExcursus: A Heart Unknown\u003cbr\u003eForce: The Adventure of Stone\u003cbr\u003eExcursus: Geologic\u003cbr\u003eSoul: The Life of Stone\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Iceland\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866006597975,"sku":"9780816692620","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816692620.jpg?v=1722276590","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stone-9780816692620","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}