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Zoontologies: The Question Of The Animal

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Full Title:

Zoontologies: The Question Of The Animal

Contributors:

By (Author) Cary Wolfe

ISBN:

9780816641062

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press

Imprint:

University of Minnesota Press

Publication Date:

29th January 2003

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Philosophy
Zoology and animal sciences

Dewey:

179.3

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

232

Dimensions:

Width 149mm, Height 229mm, Spine 13mm

Description

Those nonhuman beings called "animals" pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when "the other" can no longer safely be assumed to be human This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture and theory, from Jurassic Park and the "horse whisperer" Monty Roberts, to the work of artists such as Joseph Beuys and William Wegman; from foundational texts on the animal in the works of Heidegger and Freud, to the postmodern rethinking of ethics and animals in figures such as Singer, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Levinas; from the New York Times investigation of a North Carolina slaughterhouse, to the first appearance in any language of Jacques Derrida's recent detailed critique of Lacan's rendering of the human/animal divide.

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