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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Seshadri, Kalpana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2012].
Series:Posthumanities ; 21.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • First words on silence
  • The secret of literary silence
  • Law, "life/living," language
  • Between Derrida and Agamben
  • The wild child : politics and ethics of the name
  • The wild child and scientific names
  • HumAnimal acts : potentiality or movement as rest.