Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory - Rilegato

Wolfe, Cary

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ISBN 10: 0226905136 ISBN 13: 9780226905136

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2003

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."

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Informazioni sull'autore

Cary Wolfe is a professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author, most recently, ofCritical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the "Outside" and the editor ofZoontologies: The Question of the Animal.

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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, i ek, 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."

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226905136
• ISBN 13: 9780226905136
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile