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Animal Rites (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Animal Rites (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
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Now that supposedly distinguishing marks of humanity, from
reasoning to tool use, have been found in other species, how can we
justify discriminating against nonhuman animals solely on the basis
of their species? And how must cultural studies and critical
practices change to do justice to "others" who are not human? 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 from
Wittgenstein, Cavell and Lyotard to Levinas, Derrida, Zizek,
Maturana and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of
race, sexuality, colonialism and animality interact in 20th-century
American culture - Hemingway's fiction, the film "The Silence of
the Lambs", Michael Crichton's novel "Congo" - Wolfe explores what
it would mean, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously
"the question of the animal". A pathbreaking contribution to
discussions of posthumanism, "Animal Rites" should interest readers
in a wide range of fields, from science and literature to
philsosophy and ethics, from animal rights and ecology to literary
theory and criticism.
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