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"The Cultural Power of Personal Objects seeks to understand the value and efficacy of objects, places, and times that take on cultural power and reverence to such a degree that they are treated (whether metaphorically or actually) as ""persons,"" or as objects with ""personality""—they are living objects. Featuring both historical and theoretical sections, the volume details examples of this practice, including the wampum of certain Native American tribes, the tsukumogami of Japan, the sacred keris knives of Java, the personality of seagoing ships, the ritual objects of Hinduism and Ancient Egypt, and more. The theoretical contributions aim to provide context for the existence and experience of personal objects, drawing from a variety of disciplines. Offering a variety of new philosophical perspectives on the theme, while grounding the discussion in a historical context, The Cultural Power of Personal Objects broadens and reinvigorates our understanding of cultural meaning and experience."

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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:  

9781438486161

ISBN 10:   1438486162
Pages:   413
Publication Date:   02 July 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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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Jared Kemling teaches philosophy at Rend Lake College.

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