Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 192 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0231145063
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0231145071
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0231518560
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9780231145060
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9780231145077
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9780231518567
Content:
Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a pr
Content:
Acknowledgments; 1. The Animal Among Others; 2. Imperialism and Disavowal; 3. Facing the Animal; 4. Recuperating the Animal; 5. Revising the Human; Conclusion: Animal Studies, Ethics, and the Humanities; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231145063
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0231145071
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231145060
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231145077
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rohman, Carrie Stalking the Subject : Modernism and the Animal New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 ISBN 9780231145077
Language:
English
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