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:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal."

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART One

PART Two

Conclusion. Postmodern Ethics, the Question of the Animal, and the Imperatives of Posthumanist Theory

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index.

ISBN:

9786612932953

9781282932951

1282932950

9780226905129

0226905128

OCLC:

692205226