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Knowing animals /

Drawing on a range of perspectives such as philosophy, literary criticism, art history and cultural studies; this work presents a collection of essays which explore unconventional ways of knowing animals, offering insights into apparently familiar relationships between humans and other living beings...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Simmons, Laurence, Armstrong, Philip, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.
Colección:Human-animal studies ; v. 4.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Bestiary: An Introduction (Philip Armstrong and Laurence Simmons); PART ONE THINKING ANIMALS; Chapter One Shame, Levinas's Dog, Derrida's Cat (and Some Fish) (Laurence Simmons); Chapter Two Understanding Avian Intelligence (Alphonso Lingis); PART TWO ANIMALS INCORPORATED; Chapter Three What do Animals Dream Of? Or King Kong as Darwinian Screen Animal (Barbara Creed); Chapter Four "No Circus without Animals"?: Animal Acts and Ideology in the Virtual Circus (Tanja Schwalm).