Cultural Power of Personal Objects

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
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