HumAnimal [electronic resource] : race, law, language / Kalpana Rahita Seshadri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seshadri, Kalpana.

Series:

Posthumanities ; 21.

Posthumanities ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical anthropology.

Silence (Philosophy).

Feral children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title explores the experience of dehumanisation as the privation of speech. Taking up the figure of silence as the space between human and animal, it traces the potential for an alternate political and ethical way of life beyond law. Employing the resources offered by deconstruction as well as an ontological critique of biopower, this book suggests that humAnimal, as the site of impropriety opened by racism and manifested by silence, can be political and hazardous to power.

Contents:

First words on silence

The secret of literary silence

Law, "life/living," language

Between Derrida and Agamben

The wild child : politics and ethics of the name

The wild child and scientific names

HumAnimal acts : potentiality or movement as rest.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4824-0

0-8166-8146-5

0-8166-7789-1

OCLC:

801412245