Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction - Softcover

Ryan, Derek

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748682201 ISBN 13: 9780748682201

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2015

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A critical introduction to theoretical approaches to animals and animality From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Across four thematically organised chapters on ‘Animals as Humans’, ‘Animal Ontology’, ‘Animal Life’ and ‘Animal Ethics’ he offers extended discussions of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Singer, Nussbaum, Adams and Haraway among others, as well as lively readings of contemporary literary texts by Carter, Coetzee, Auster and Foer. Intended as a resource for researchers, students, teachers and all those interested in human-animal relationships, Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction provides an accessible and authoritative account of the challenges and potential in thinking about and with animals. Key Features Provides a wide-ranging discussion of theoretical approaches to animals in modern and contemporary philosophy Offers an accessible guide to key concepts in animal theory Intervenes in current debates by critically engaging with theoretical issues and suggesting new ways to consider human-animal relations Includes close readings of four contemporary literary texts to supplement the theoretical discussion Contains a list of ‘Key Texts’ and ‘Further Reading’ at the end of each chapter Derek Ryan is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent and author of Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). His other publications include articles and essays that combine interests in modernism, philosophy and animal studies.

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Derek Ryan is Senior Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent and author of Bloomsbury, Beasts and British Modernist Literature (2022), Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction (2015) and Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life (2013). He is editor of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals (2023) and co-editor of several volumes including Cross-Channel Modernisms (2020), Reading Literary Animals (2019) and The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group (2018). He is Literature Subject Editor for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and co-editor of the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography.

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**AUTHOR APPROVED**‘An exceptional introduction for scholars, teachers, and others seeking to engage the struggle with “the animal” and “nonhuman” in theory, Animal Theory concisely traces the transdisciplinary revolution in thought that drives the academic field of animal studies.’Susan McHugh, University of New EnglandA critical introduction to theoretical approaches to animals and animalityFrom caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Across four thematically organised chapters on ‘Animals as Humans’, ‘Animal Ontology’, ‘Animal Life’ and ‘Animal Ethics’ he offers extended discussions of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Singer, Nussbaum, Adams and Haraway among others, as well as lively readings of contemporary literary texts by Carter, Coetzee, Auster and Foer. Intended as a resource for researchers, students, teachers and all those interested in human-animal relationships, Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction provides an accessible and authoritative account of the challenges and potential in thinking about and with animals.Key Features•Provides a wide-ranging discussion of theoretical approaches to animals in modern and contemporary philosophy•Offers an accessible guide to key concepts in animal theory•Intervenes in current debates by critically engaging with theoretical issues and suggesting new ways to consider human-animal relations•Includes close readings of four contemporary literary texts to supplement the theoretical discussion•Contains a list of ‘Key Texts’ and ‘Further Reading’ at the end of each chapterDerek Ryan is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent and author of Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). His other publications include articles and essays that combine interests in modernism, philosophy and animal studies.Cover image: Respect Your Elders © MaentisCover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.comISBN [PPC] 978-0-7486-8219-5 [Pb] 978-0-7486-8220-1Barcode

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• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748682201
• ISBN 13: 9780748682201
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 168
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