Knowing animals / edited by Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simmons, Laurence.

Armstrong, Philip, 1967-

Series:

Human-animal studies ; v. 4.

Human--animal studies, 1573-4226 ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Animal behavior.

Anthropomorphism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an ‘animal turn’, an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the ‘animal turn’ by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary criticism, art history and cultural studies. The essays collected here describe a lively bestiary of cultural organisms, whose flesh is (at least partly) conceptual and textual: paper tigers, beast fables, anthropomorphs, humanimals, l’animot. In so doing, they investigate the benefits of knowing animals differently: more closely, less definitively, more carefully, less certainly. Contributors include: Laurence Simmons, Alphonso Lingis, Barbara Creed, Tanja Schwalm, Philip Armstrong, Annie Potts, Allan Smith, Ricardo De Vos, Catharina Landström, Brian Boyd, Helen Tiffin, Ian Wedde.

Contents:

Preliminary Materials / Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong

Bestiary: An Introduction / Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong

Chapter One. Shame, Levinas’s Dog, Derrida’s Cat (And Some Fish)

Chapter Two. Understanding Avian Intelligence / Alphonso Lingis

Chapter Three. What Do Animals Dream Of ? Or King Kong As Darwinian Screen Animal / Barbara Creed

Chapter Four. "No Circus Without Animals"?: Animal Acts And Ideology In The Virtual Circus / Tanja Schwalm

Chapter Five. Farming Images: Animal Rights And Agribusiness In The Field Of Vision / Philip Armstrong

Chapter Six. The Mark Of The Beast: Inscribing ‘Animality’ Through Extreme Body Modification / Annie Potts

Chapter Seven. Bill Hammond’s Parliament Of Foules / Allan Smith

Chapter Eight. Extinction Stories: Performing Absence(s) / Ricardo De Vos

Chapter Nine. Australia Imagined In Biological Control / Catharina Landström

Chapter Ten. Tails Within Tales / Brian Boyd

Chapter Eleven. Pigs, People And Pigoons / Helen Tiffin

Chapter . Twelve Walking The Dog / Ian Wedde

Index / Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-92618-3

9786611926182

90-474-1950-2

OCLC:

646789943

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004157736.i-296 DOI