Wolfe, C: Animal Rites - American Culture, the Discourse of

Cary Wolfe|W. J. T. Mitchell

ISBN 10: 0226905144 / ISBN 13: 9780226905143

Editore: University of Chicago Press, 2003

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In Animal rites , Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics, and animals by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal.&Uumlber den AutorCary Wolfe is professor of En.

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• Titolo: Wolfe, C: Animal Rites - American Culture, the Discourse of
• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226905144
• ISBN 13: 9780226905143
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: New

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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."

Informazioni sull'autore

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