{"product_id":"the-stuff-of-life-hardcover","title":"The Stuff of Life - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Morton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An old teapot, used daily, can tell me more of my past than anything I recorded of it.' \u003ci\u003eSylvia Townsend Warner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere are many ways of telling the story of a life and how we've got to where we are. The questions of why and how we think the way we do continues to preoccupy philosophers. In \u003ci\u003eThe Stuff of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Timothy Morton chooses the objects that have shaped and punctuated their life to tell the story of who they are and why they might think the way they do. These objects are 'things' in the richest sense. They are beings, non-human beings, that have a presence and a force of their own. From the looming expanse of Battersea Power Station to a packet of anti-depressants and a cowboy suit, Morton explores why 'stuff' matters and the life of these things have so powerfully impinged upon their own. Their realization, through a concealer stick, that they identify as non-binary reveals the strange and wonderful ways that objects can form our worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart memoir, part philosophical exploration of the meaning of a life lived alongside and through other things, Morton asks us to think about the stuff, things, objects and buildings that have formed our realities and who we are and might be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Morton\u003c\/b\u003e is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, USA. They have collaborated with Björk, Laurie Anderson, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Justin Guariglia, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams. Morton co-wrote and appears in \u003ci\u003eLiving in the Future's Past\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges. They are the author of \u003ci\u003eBeing Ecological\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eHumankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People\u003c\/i\u003e (2017), \u003ci\u003eDark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence\u003c\/i\u003e ( 2016), \u003ci\u003eNothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), \u003ci\u003eHyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), \u003ci\u003eRealist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality\u003c\/i\u003e (2013), \u003ci\u003eThe Ecological Thought\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), \u003ci\u003eEcology without Nature \u003c\/i\u003e(2007), eight other books and 250 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47186696241401,"sku":"9781350240476","price":76.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YVdOR1FRVHVpVGllNk44Tzk5eGZKUT09.webp?v=1767845187","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-stuff-of-life-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}