How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters

by Karl Steel

Book Overview

From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts

Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517905273
• ISBN13: 9781517905279
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"