Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant
studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and
philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of
and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She
challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of
engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories
that we tell, and are told, by insects - beings at the edges of
animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures
evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by
empathy. Along the way she encounters fiction writers Yann Martel,
Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of
Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois.
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