'A Nietzschean Bestiary' gathers essays treating the most vivid & lively animal images in Nietzsche's work, such as the howling beast of prey, Zarathustra's laughing lions, & the notorious blond beast.
A Nietzschean bestiary: becoming animal beyond docile and brutal
by Conway, Daniel, Higgins, Kathleen Marie, Schrift, Alan D., Perkins, Richard, Pappas, Nickolas, Lemm, Vanessa, Brobjer, Thomas H., Babbich, Babette, Bergoffen, Debra, Crowley, Brian, Domino, Brian, Groff, Peter, Ham, Jennifer, Hatab, Lawrence, Loeb, Paul S., Schank, Gerd, Shapiro, Gary, Stark, Tracey, Taylor, C. S., (Charles S.), Weinstein, Jami, Woodruff, Martha Kendal
Nietzsche's use of metaphor has been widely noted but rarely focused to explore specific images in great detail. A Nietzschean Bestiary gathers essays devoted to the most notorious and celebrated beasts in Nietzsche's work. The essays illustrate Nietzsche's ample use of animal i…
What does it take for you to persist from one time to another? What sorts of changes could you survive, and what would bring your existence to an end? What makes it the case that some past or future being, rather than another, is you? So begins Eric Olson's pathbreaking new book…
Judith Still analyses Derrida's late writings on animals, especially his seminars The Beast and the Sovereign, to explore ethical questions of how humans treat animals and how we treat outsiders, from slaves to terrorists.
This work analyses Derrida's investigating, and unpicking, of the assertion of a gulf between man and the animal, and the attribution of qualities (both relatively desirable such as reason, and undesirable such as cruelty) to man alone.
While postmodern approaches to politics and ethics have offered some intriguing and influential insights in philosophy and theory, Gary Steiner illuminates the fundamental inability of these approaches to arrive at viable ethical and political principles. Ethics require notions …
"In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism's inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not available to postmodernists. Thus, much of what is published under …
While postmodern approaches to politics and ethics have offered some intriguing and influential insights in philosophy and theory, Gary Steiner illuminates the fundamental inability of these approaches to arrive at viable ethical and political principles. Ethics require notions …
Die Beiträge dieses aus einer interdisziplinären Tagung hervorgegangenen Bandes widmen sich aktuellen Fragen, die sich in den kulturwissenschaftlichen Debatten um die Human-Animal Studies derzeit stellen. Sie berühren nicht allein die philosophischen, ethischen, rechtlichen, pol…