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French thinking about animals /

Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 2015.
Colección:Animal turn.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Animal histories
  • Building an animal history / Éric Baratay
  • A tale of three chameleons: the animal between science and literature in the age of Louis XIV / Peter Sahlins
  • The colonial zoo / Walter Putnam
  • Part II. Animal philosophies and representations
  • The unexpected resemblance between dualism and continuism, or How to break a philosophical stalemate / Florence Burgat
  • Like the fingers of the hand: thinking the human in the texture of animality / Dominique Lestel
  • Animality and contemporary French literature studies: overview and perspectives / Anne Simon
  • Part III. Animal intimacies
  • Why "I had not read Derrida": often too close, always too far away / Vinciane Despret
  • Chercher la chatte: Derrida's queer feminine animality / Carla Freccero
  • Paternalism or legal protection of animals? Bestiality and the French judicial system / Marcela Iacub
  • Part IV. Animals and environment
  • On being living beings: renewing perceptions of our world, our society, and ourselves / Isabelle Delannoy
  • The greenway: a study of shared animal/human mobility / Nathalie Blanc
  • Wild, domestic, or technical: what status for animals? / Marie-Hélène Parizeau.