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Exemplary Rocks

  • Kellie Roberston (author)
Chapter of: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects(pp. 91–121)

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TitleExemplary Rocks
ContributorKellie Roberston (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0006.1.06
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/animal-vegetable-mineral-ethics-and-objects/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightRoberston, Kellie
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-05-07
Long abstractRocks are usually synonymous with insentience: to say that so-and-so has “a heart of stone” or is “dumber than a box of rocks” is to give insult by degrading the dynamic into the inert. In such comparisons, the rock contaminates the human to the extent that the latter is drained of all sensation and vitality. Such popular wisdom is codified into metaphysical precept in Heide-gger’s attempt to define “world” by parsing it according to levels of perceived sentience and a capacity for active engagement with the environment. Heidegger’s theses have been much discussed by critics interested in “the animal” and “the human:” both Derrida and Agamben lament how these rigid categories obscure the common ground of animality and humanity especially with respect to language. Despite this desire to resist the singularity of the human, it is only recently that critics such as Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and (within Medieval Studies) Jeffrey J. Cohen have challenged the third leg of Heidegger’s ontological stool: the poverty of the inanimate world.
Page rangepp. 91–121
Print length31 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)