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Speaking Stones: Material Agency and Interaction in Christian Enzensberger’s Geschichte der Natur
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German Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene, p.165-182
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan US
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This chapter investigates the agentic dimensions of pebbles in Christian Enzensberger’s Nicht Eins und Doch: Geschichte der Natur. While stone is a material usually scorned for its inanimateness and has been infamously denounced as “worldless” by Martin Heidegger, Enzensberger lends stone a voice, thus defying a longstanding hierarchy that since the Middle Ages has placed lithic matter at the very bottom of worldly existence. Yet Enzensberger’s novel can be read as a continuation and expansion of Heidegger’s essay “Der Feldweg.” In an experimental, multilingual, and imaginative narrative about sensual encounters with the nonhuman world, Enzensberger’s text elucidates a greater range of human experience that emerges when humans give up their claim to exclusive agency to explore, in reversed manner, their entanglement with the earth.