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Animal rites : American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory / Cary Wolfe ; foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfe, Cary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animal rights--Philosophy.
- Animal rights.
- Species--Philosophy.
- Species.
- Humanism.
- Human-animal relationships in literature.
- Human-animal relationships in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 237 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Foreword, W.J.T. MitchellAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One1. Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and the Poverty of Humanism2. In the Shadow of Wittgenstein's Lion: Language, Ethics, and the Question of the AnimalPart Two3. Subject to Sacrifice: Ideology, Psychoanalysis, and the Discourse of Species in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (with Jonathan Elmer)4. Aficionados and Friend Killers: Rearticulating Race and Gender via Species in Hemingway5. Faux Posthumanism: The Discourse of Species and the Neocolonial Project in Michael Crichton's CongoConclusion: Postmodern Ethics, the Question of the Animal, and the Imperatives of Posthumanist TheoryNotesIndex
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226905136
- 0226905144
- OCLC:
- 49823186
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