With Dogs at the Edge of Life / Colin Dayan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dayan, Colin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dog owners--Psychology.

Dog owners.

Dogs--Social aspects--United States.

Dogs.

Human-animal relationships--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human-animal relationships.

Animal welfare--United States.

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane societies of the United States, and in the memories and myths of the humans who love them. Dayan reorients our ethical and political assumptions through a trans-species engagement that risks as much as it promises. She makes a powerful case for questioning what we think of as our deepest-held beliefs and, with dogs in the lead, unsettles the dubious promises of liberal humanism.Moving seamlessly between memoir, case law, and film, Dayan takes politics and animal studies in a new direction-one that gives us glimpses of how we can think beyond ourselves and with other beings. Her unconventional perspective raises hard questions and renews what it means for any animal or human to live in the twenty-first century. Nothing less than a challenge for us to confront violence and suffering even in the privileged precincts of modernity, this searing and lyrical book calls for another way to think the world. Theoretically sophisticated yet aimed at a broad readership, With Dogs at the Edge of Life illuminates how dogs-and their struggles-take us beyond sentimentality and into a form of thought that can make a difference to our lives.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

by way of beginning

Part One. Like a Dog

Chapter One. Dogs and Light

Chapter Two. Back Talking Like I Did

Chapter Three. They Killed My Dog

Part Two. When Law Comes to Visit

Chapter Four. Dead Dogs

Chapter Five. Speaking About Extinction

Chapter Six. Fable for the End of a Breed

Part Three. Pariah Dogs

Chapter Seven. Through the Eyes of Dogs

Chapter Eight. If I Sense the Beauty

Coda

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231540742

0231540744

OCLC:

1013955135