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Stalking the subject : modernism and the animal /

Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Car...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rohman, Carrie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a pr.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 192 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index.
ISBN:9780231518567
0231518560