03930nam 22007093u 450 991046054790332120210117194404.01-60917-437-2(CKB)3710000000341317(EBL)1986167(SSID)ssj0001542568(PQKBManifestationID)16131485(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001542568(PQKBWorkID)12895150(PQKB)11370939(MiAaPQ)EBC1986167(MiAaPQ)EBC3338384(Au-PeEL)EBL1986167(OCoLC)903448464(EXLCZ)99371000000034131720150316d2015|||| u|| |engurcnu||||||||txtccrFrench Thinking about Animals[electronic resource]East Lansing, MI Michigan State University Press20151 online resource (233 p.)The Animal TurnDescription based upon print version of record.1-61186-152-7 Contents; Foreword by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer; Introduction; Part 1. Animal Histories; Building an Animal History - Éric Baratay; A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV - Peter Sahlins; The Colonial Zoo - Walter Putnam; Part 2. Animal Philosophies and Representations; The Unexpected Resemblance between Dualism and Continuism, or How to Break a Philosophical Stalemate - Florence Burgat; Like the Fingers of the Hand: Thinking the Human in the Texture of Animality - Dominique LestelAnimality and Contemporary French Literary Studies: Overview and Perspectives - Anne Simon Part 3. Animal Intimacies; Why "I Had Not Read Derrida": Often Too Close, Always Too Far Away - Vinciane Despret; Chercher la chatte: Derrida's Queer Feminine Animality - Carla Freccero; Paternalism or Legal Protection of Animals? Bestiality and the French Judicial System - Marcela Iacub; Part 4. Animals and Environment; On Being Living Beings: Renewing Perceptions of Our World, Our Society, and Ourselves - Isabelle Delannoy; The Greenway: A Study of Shared Animal/Human Mobility - Nathalie BlancWild, Domestic, or Technical: What Status for Animals? - Marie-Hélène ParizeauBibliography; Contributors; IndexBringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw onThe Animal TurnAnimals -- BiographyAnimals and civilizationFamous animals -- BiographyAnimals and civilizationSocial aspectsFranceAnimalsFranceHuman-animal relationshipsFranceAnimals in literatureElectronic books.Animals -- Biography.Animals and civilization.Famous animals -- Biography.Animals and civilizationSocial aspectsAnimalsHuman-animal relationshipsAnimals in literature590.10923489Mackenzie Louisa1036040Posthumus Stephanie1036041AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910460547903321French Thinking about Animals2456142UNINA