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Thinking plant animal human : encounters with communities of difference / David Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, David, 1946- author.
- Series:
- Posthumanities ; 56.
- Posthumanities ; 56
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xix, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Collected essays by a leading philosopher situating the question of the animal in the broader context of a relational ontology"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Homo sapiens: The Long View p. 1
- 2 Adventures in Phytophenomenology p. 23
- 3 Trees and Truth: Our Uncanny Arboreality p. 35
- 4 Sand Crab Speculations p. 51
- 5 On Track for Terratoriality: Of Goats and Men p. 71
- 6 The Absent Animal: Mirror Infractions in the Yucatan p. 79
- 7 Kinnibalism, Cannibalism: Stepping Back from the Plate p. 109
- 8 Creatures from Another Planet p. 111
- 9 Thinking with Cats p. 117
- 10 The Truth about Animals I: Jamming the Anthropological Machine p. 137
- 11 The Truth about Animals II: "Noblesse Oblige" and the Abyss p. 153
- 12 Giving Voice to Other Beings p. 167
- 13 Toxicity and Transcendence: Two Faces of the Human p. 185.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wood, David, 1946- Thinking plant animal human
- ISBN:
- 9781517907211
- 1517907217
- 9781517907228
- 1517907225
- OCLC:
- 1122911622
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