Animal rites : american culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory / / Cary Wolfe ; foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell

• Autore: Wolfe Cary
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 179/.3
• Soggetto topico: Animal rights - Philosophy; Species - Philosophy; Humanism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Human-animal relationships in motion pictures
• Soggetto non controllato: animal behavior, carnism, posthumanism, species, ethics, humanism, race, sexuality, animality, colonialism, philosophy, varela, maturana, zizek, derrida, levinas, lyotard, cavell, wittgenstein, ecology, rights, language, sacrifice, psychology, gender, hemingway, congo, silence of the lambs, michael crichton, nonfiction, zoology, anthropocentrism, other
• Altri autori: MitchellW. J. T
• Note generali: Description based on print version record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART One -- PART Two -- Conclusion. Postmodern Ethics, the Question of the Animal, and the Imperatives of Posthumanist Theory -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal."
• Titolo autorizzato: Animal rites
• ISBN: 9780226905129; 9780226905136; 9780226905143
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910785465403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II