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HumAnimal : race, law, language /
HumAnimal explores the experience of dehumanization as the privation of speech. Taking up the figure of silence as the space between human and animal, it traces the potential for an alternate political and ethical way of life beyond law. Employing the resources offered by deconstruction as well as a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis ; London :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2012].
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| Colección: | Posthumanities ;
21. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | HumAnimal explores the experience of dehumanization as the privation of speech. Taking up the figure of silence as the space between human and animal, it traces the potential for an alternate political and ethical way of life beyond law. Employing the resources offered by deconstruction as well as an ontological critique of biopower, Kalpana Rahita Seshadri suggests that humAnimal, as the site of impropriety opened by racism and manifested by silence, can be political and hazardous to power. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816677894 0816677891 9780816681464 0816681465 9781452948249 1452948240 |