Thinking animals: why animal studies now?
by Weil, Kari
Animal studies has emerged as a major field within the humanities, despite its challenge to the very notion of the human" that shapes humanities scholarship. Kari Weil investigates the rise of animal studies and its singular reading of literature and philosophy through the lens of human-animal relations and difference, providing not only a critical introduction to the field but also an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Weil explores the mechanisms we use to build knowledge …
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- Full title :Thinking animals : why animal studies now? / Kari Weil.
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Animal studies has emerged as a major field within the humanities, despite its challenge to the very notion of the human" that shapes humanities scholarship. Kari Weil investigates the rise of animal studies and its singular reading of literature and philosophy through the lens of human-animal relations and difference, providing not only a critical introduction to the field but also an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Weil explores the mechanisms we use to build knowledge of other animals, to understand ourselves in relation to other animals, and to represent.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 190 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780231519847, 0231519842
- oclc:ocn794493962
- LC Classification:B105.A55
- Dewey Decimal:113/.8
Table of Contents
A report on the animal turn -- Seeing animals -- Is a pet an animal? Domestication and animal agency -- Gendered subjects/abject objects : man(n)'s best friend -- Dog love/w(o)olf love -- A proper death -- Thinking and unthinking animal death : Temple Grandin and J.M. Coetzee -- Animal liberation or shameless freedom.
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