Electric animal : toward a rhetoric of wildlife / Akira Mizuta Lippit.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lippit, Akira Mizuta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals (Philosophy).

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the definition of modernity-essential to developments in the natural sciences and technology, radical transformations in modern philosophy and literature, and the advent of psychoanalysis and the cinema. Moving beyond the dialectical framework that has traditionally bound a

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Remembering Animals; Metaphysics of language; 1 Philosophy and the Animal World; Cogito and monad; Palingenesis; Imagination; Mimesis; The animal cry; 2 Afterthoughts on the Animal World: Heidegger to Nietzsche; 3 Evolutions: Natural Selection, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis; Bergson's apparatuses of consciousness; Freud's incorporation of Darwin; 4 The Wildside: Theory and Animality; Breuer's preliminal communication; Smell; Becoming-animal; 5 The Literary Animal: Carroll, Kafka, Akutagawa; Akutagawa's satirical animal

6 Animetaphors: Photography, Cryptonymy, FilmPhotography; Technologies of incorporation; Cinema; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-265) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6621-0

OCLC:

471130892