The matter of history : how things create the past
Timothy J. LeCain
Bok · Engelsk · 2017
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| Omfang | XIX, 346 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | 1. Fellow Travelers: The Non-Human Things That Make Us Human -- 2. We Never Left Eden: The Religious and Secular Marginalization of Matter -- 3. Natural Born Humans: A Neo-Materialist Theory and Method of History -- 4. The Longhorn: The Animal Intelligence Behind American Open Range Ranching -- 5. The Silkworm: The Innovative Insects Behind Japanese Modernization -- 6. The Copper Atom: Conductivity and the Great Convergence of Japan and the West -- 7. The Matter of Humans: Beyond the Anthropocene and Towards a New Humanism .. - "New insights into the microbiome, epigenetics, and cognition are radically challenging our very idea of what it means to be 'human', while an explosion of neo-materialist thinking in the humanities has fostered a renewed appreciation of the formative powers of a dynamic material environment. The Matter of History brings these scientific and humanistic ideas together to develop a bold new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past, one that reveals how powerful organism and things help to create humans in all their dimensions, biological, social, and cultural."
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| ISBN | 9781107134171. - 9781107592704
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