Animal rites : American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory /
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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Table des matières:
- 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.