Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

Cary Wolfe

ISBN 10: 0226905144 / ISBN 13: 9780226905143

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2003

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Inhaltsangabe:

In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal."

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Cary Wolfe is a professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author, most recently, of Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside" and the editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Animal Rites: American Culture, the ...
Verlag: University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good