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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796217203321

Titolo

Seeing animals after Derrida / / edited by Sarah Bezan, James Tink

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-4985-4060-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 pages)

Collana

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Disciplina

156

Soggetti

Animals (Philosophy) - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The wolves of the world : Derrida on the political symbolism of the beast and the sovereign / Gavin Rae -- The loaded cat / David Brooks -- The most famous dog in history : mourning the Animot in Abadzis Laika / José Alaniz -- The anterior animal : Derrida, deep time, and immersive vision of paleoartist Julius Csotonyi / Sarah Bezan -- The dignity of mankind : Edward Tyson's anatomy of a pygmie and the ape-man boundary / Nicole Mennell -- Chris Marker's alter egos : The camera and the cat / Bonnie Gill -- Scenting wild : olfactory panic and Jack London's ocular dogs / David Huebert -- Do androids dream of Derrida's cat? The unregulated emotion of animals in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? / Megan E. Cannella -- Be/holding each other : transgenic invisibilities, anomaly, and subjectivity in the GFP bunny project / Malin Palani -- Becoming animal and the two meanings of animality : a Derridean reading of black swan / Rodolfo Piskorski -- Approaching apocalypse : the typology of animals in Nicola Barker's in the approaches / James Tink.

Sommario/riassunto

"Seeing Animals after Derrida marks a shift in studies of visuality in animal philosophy. Presenting an emergent set of questions for animal studies scholars, this volume intervenes in recent debates of the nonhuman turn that have been incited in the wake of a post-deconstructionist era"--