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Electric animal : toward a rhetoric of wildlife /
Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the definition of modernity--essential to developments in the natural sciences and technology, radical transformations in modern philosophy and literature, and the advent of psychoanalysis and the cinema. Moving beyond the dialectical framework that has traditionally bound animal. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 286 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816666218 0816666210 0816634858 9780816634859 9780816634866 0816634866 |