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Power, Knowledge, Animals / by L. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Lisa.
- Series:
- The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, 2634-6680
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Sociology.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
- Social Philosophy.
- Local Subjects:
- Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
- Sociology.
- Social Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (187 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work contributes to the development of a theoretical context of the politics of truth about animals. By applying and extending Foucault's theory of power, this work uncovers dominant and subjugated discourses about animals and describes power-knowledge associated with statements about animals that are understood to convey true things.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Essential Political Problem; A suggested perspective; Introduction to Foucaultian methodology and theory; Power; The "essential political problem"; Organization of the project; The animal as a subject; A Foucaultian perspective; Language and reality; What the term "animal" refers to in this work; Scope and limitations; 2 Contemporary Discourses about Animals; The discourse of law; The discourse of lines; 3 Insurrection; Organization of chapter
- The subordination of knowledge of animals as living beingsTransmigration of souls discourse; Karmic discourse; Rational animals discourse; The potential de-legitimizing power of insurrection; Archaeology and the insurrection of buried discourse; The hidden truth of error (or, some knowledge should just remain buried); 4 On Blindness to Being; Discursive formations; Conceptual limitations; Subjugated discourse: a resistance; 5 Parallelisms (Or, the Changeable Nature of Knowledge); Parallel stories; The concept of man, and stories as supporting cast; Parallel discourse about women
- A wildly speculative theorist with a visionary dogmaNotes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283737968
- 1283737965
- 9781137284174
- 113728417X
- OCLC:
- 815749673
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