The Rhetorical Invention of Man: A History of Distinguishing Humans from Other Animals draws attention to the logical contradictions, unstable premises, and unquestioned assumptions that underlie arguments about Man's distinction, while also demonstrating that the way we think a…
<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">The Rhetorical Invention of Man examines how the category "Man" has dominated Western thinking since the sixteenth century. This category, a historical anomaly according to Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, has produced distortions in our ab…
Are non-human animals our friends or enemies? In this provocative book, Dinesh Wadiwel argues that our mainstay relationships with billions of animals are essentially hostile. This book asks us to interrogate this sustained violence across its intersubjective, institutional and …
The War against Animals; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: The Live Hang; PART 1 Biopolitics; 1 Bare Life; 2 Governmentality; PART 2 Conquest; 3 Immunity; 4 Property and Commodity; PART 3 Private Dominion; 5 Privatisation and Containment; 6 Companions…
Are non-human animals our friends or enemies? In this provocative book, Dinesh Wadiwel argues that our mainstay relationships with billions of animals are essentially hostile. This book asks us to interrogate this sustained violence across its intersubjective, institutional and …
Are non-human animals our friends or enemies? In this provocative book, Dinesh Wadiwel argues that our mainstay relationships with billions of animals are essentially hostile. This book asks us to interrogate this sustained violence across its intersubjective, institutional and …
"This book aims to begin an eco-centered, eco-feminist informed discussion about the ways in which our relationship to "nature" is bound up with gender, patriarchy and violence. Ecofeminist scholars study the interconnections between gendered relationships of domination among hu…
"This book aims to begin an eco-centered, eco-feminist informed discussion about the ways in which our relationship to "nature" is bound up with gender, patriarchy and violence. Ecofeminist scholars study the interconnections between gendered relationships of domination among hu…
"This book aims to begin an eco-centered, eco-feminist informed discussion about the ways in which our relationship to "nature" is bound up with gender, patriarchy and violence. Ecofeminist scholars study the interconnections between gendered relationships of domination among hu…