Monkey trouble : the scandal of posthumanism /

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"According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying. The human has become a conspicuous blind spot for many theorists seeking to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peterson, Christopher, 1950 February 18-2012 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Human beings.
Human-animal relationships.
Humanism.
Nature and civilization.
Philosophical anthropology.
Humanism > Philosophy.
Humanisme > Philosophie.
Anthropologie philosophique.
Êtres humains.
Humanisme.
Relations homme-animal.
Nature et civilisation.
philosophical anthropology.
Homo sapiens (species)
humanism.
Philosophical anthropology
Nature and civilization
Humanism > Philosophy
Humanism
Human beings
Human-animal relationships
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The scandal of the human: immanent transcendency and the question of animal language
  • Sovereign silence: the desire for answering speech
  • The gravity of melancholia: a critique of speculative realism
  • Listing toward cosmocracy: the limits of hospitality.

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