The Cultural Power of Personal Objects: Traditional Accounts and New Perspectives

Author:   Jared Kemling
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
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Pages:   413
Publication Date:   01 December 2021
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Author:   Jared Kemling
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438486178


ISBN 10:   1438486170
Pages:   413
Publication Date:   01 December 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Traditional Accounts 1. Mereology: Wholes, Parts, and the Big Thicket Pete A. Y. Gunter 2. Personality in Seagoing Ships Marc M. Anderson 3. Personified Objects and Objectified Persons in Ancient Egypt Martin Pehal 4. Seeing and Time: Personal Divinity in the Object of Hindu Devotion John W. August III 5. Convergence and Divergence of Spirit: Tsukumogami and the Personality of Objects Kevin C. Taylor 6. The Journey of the Javanese Keris Alan G. Maisey 7. Cherokee Nonhuman Persons in Dual Realms Carrie McLachlan 8. The Quilt as Personal Object Sasha L. Biro Part II: New Perspectives 9. The New Materialism: A Critique Michael Jackson 10. Constituting Personal Objects, Constituting Persons Dwayne A. Tunstall 11. A Personalized Cultural World: A Cassireran Phenomenology of Personalized Intuition Jared Kemling 12. The Comfort of Things: Personal Objects, Possession, Dwelling, and the Desire to Be God in Sartre and Levinas James McLachlan 13. Have We Effectively Made Money a Person and Ourselves Its Corporeal Embodiment? Helen Grela 14. Wampum, Person, and the Life of Exchange Randall Auxier 15. How My Piano Uses Gendlin's Focusing Method Ralph D. Ellis 16. Meditating on the Vitality of the Musical Object: A Spiritual Exercise Drawn from Richard Wagner's Metaphysics of Music Eli Kramer 17. Bring Out Your Dead: Human Bodies, Cultural Objects, and Personality Laura J. Mueller 18. Sex Robots and Solipsism: Towards a Culture of Empty Contact Charles W. Harvey Contributors Index

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