Animal rites : American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory /

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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, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexualit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolfe, Cary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
Temas:
Animal rights > Philosophy.
Species > Philosophy.
Humanism.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.
Humanism
Animaux > Droits > Philosophie.
Espèces (Biologie) > Philosophie.
Humanisme.
Relations homme-animal dans la littérature.
Relations homme-animal au cinéma.
humanism.
NATURE > Animal Rights.
Animal rights > Philosophy
Human-animal relationships in literature
Human-animal relationships in motion pictures
Species > Philosophy
Mens-dier-relatie.
Subject (filosofie)
Soorten (biologie)
Letterkunde.
Films.
The silence of the lambs (Demme)
Casestudies (vorm)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Old orders for new: ecology, animal rights and the poverty of humanism
  • In the shadow of Wttgenstein's Lion: language, ethics, and the question of the animal
  • Subject to sacrifice: ideology, psychoanalysis, and the discourse of species in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of The Lambs (with Jonathan Elmer)
  • Aficionados and friend killers: rearticulating race and gender via species in Hemingway
  • Faux posthumanism: the discourse of species and the neocolonial project in Michael Crichton's Congo
  • Conclusion: postmodern ethics, thequestion of the animal, and the imperatives of posthumanist theory.

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