Lives of Objects

Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or removed from their context, they can feel alien, take on a different use, or become trash. The lives of objects change when our relationships to them change.Maia Kotrosits offers a fresh perspective on objects, looking beyond physical material to consider how collective imagination shapes the formation of objects and the experience of reality. Bringing a psychoanalytic approach to the analysis of material culture, she examines objects of attachment—relationships, ideas, and beliefs that live on in the psyche—and illustrates how people across time have anchored value systems to the materiality of life. Engaging with classical studies, history, anthropology, and literary, gender, and queer studies, Kotrosits shows how these disciplines address historical knowledge and how an expanded definition of materiality can help us make connections between antiquity and the contemporary world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-09-07
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieClass 200: New Studies in Religion
Antal sidor232
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226707587

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Introduction1 Objects Made Real: The Art of Description2 Citizens of Fallen Cities: Ruins, Diaspora, and the Material Unconscious3 Histories Unwritten in Stone: The Frustrations of Memorialization 674 Tertullian of Carthage and the Materiality of Power (with Carly Daniel-Hughes)5 The Perils of Translation: Martyrs’ Last Words and the Cultural Materiality of Speech6 Penetration and Its Discontents: Agency, Touch, and Objects of Desire7 Darkening the Discipline: Fantasies of Efficacy and the Art of RedescriptionAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

"[T]he individual interpretations in Kotrosits’s book are elegant and persuasive. The writing is some of the clearest discussion of often opaque theory that I have seen. The warnings to scholars—for example, her position (also argued in her earlier work) that is wrong to use 'Christian' in a discussion of many second century texts—are convincing and apposite. And anyone aspiring to be a 'public intellectual' should be forewarned by the powerful exploration in her final chapter of the dangers of such aspiration. In short, this will be a challenging, even moving, book for scholars in several different fields of the humanities."