Zoontologies: The Question Of The Animal

Wolfe, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor Cary

ISBN 10: 0816641064 / ISBN 13: 9780816641062

Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2003

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Explores the boundaries between the animal and the human--includes an original essay by Jacques Derrida

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.

Contributors: Steve Baker, U of Central Lancashire; Jacques Derrida, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Ursula K. Heise, Columbia U; Charlie LeDuff, New York Times; Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State U; Paul Patton, U of Sydney; Judith Roof, Michigan State U; David Wills, SUNY, Albany.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Cary Wolfe is professor of English at the State University of New York, Albany. He is the author of Critical Environments (Minnesota, 1998).

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Zoontologies: The Question Of The Animal
Verlag: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good