|
Showing 1 - 6 of
6 matches in All Departments
This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its
profound power over the human imagination. It examines the
structural and ethical role that the human imagination must play to
provide an interface between humans’ subjectivity and the real
cognitive capacities of animals. The book offers a systematic study
of the increasing importance of the metaphors, the virtual, and
figures in contemporary animal studies. It explores human-animal
and real-imaginary dichotomies, revealing them to be the source of
oppressive cultural structures. Through an analysis of creative,
playful and theatric enactments and mimicry of animal behaviors and
communication, the book establishes that human imagination is based
on animal imagination. This helps redefine our traditional
knowledge about animals and presents new practices and ethical
concerns in regard to the animals. The book strongly contends that
allowing imagination to play a role in our relation to animals will
lead to the development of a more empathetic approach towards them.
Drawing on works in phenomenology, contemporary animal philosophy,
as well as ethological evidence and biosemiotics, this book is the
first to rethink the traditional philosophical concepts of
imagination, images, the imaginary, and reality in the light of a
zoocentric perspective. It will appeal to philosophers, scholars
and students in the field of animal studies, as well as anyone
interested in human and non-human imaginations.
This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its
profound power over the human imagination. It examines the
structural and ethical role that the human imagination must play to
provide an interface between humans' subjectivity and the real
cognitive capacities of animals. The book offers a systematic study
of the increasing importance of the metaphors, the virtual, and
figures in contemporary animal studies. It explores human-animal
and real-imaginary dichotomies, revealing them to be the source of
oppressive cultural structures. Through an analysis of creative,
playful and theatric enactments and mimicry of animal behaviors and
communication, the book establishes that human imagination is based
on animal imagination. This helps redefine our traditional
knowledge about animals and presents new practices and ethical
concerns in regard to the animals. The book strongly contends that
allowing imagination to play a role in our relation to animals will
lead to the development of a more empathetic approach towards them.
Drawing on works in phenomenology, contemporary animal philosophy,
as well as ethological evidence and biosemiotics, this book is the
first to rethink the traditional philosophical concepts of
imagination, images, the imaginary, and reality in the light of a
zoocentric perspective. It will appeal to philosophers, scholars
and students in the field of animal studies, as well as anyone
interested in human and non-human imaginations.
Cette etude a pour objet la conception merleau-pontyenne de
l'imaginaire et la maniere dont elle conduit a repenser
radicalement le reel dans sa totalite et, finalement, a imposer une
ontologie dont l'imaginaire est le principe meme, l'institution de
l'Etre ."
Cette etude propose une analyse precise de la conception
husserlienne des images et de l'imagination. Il s'agit d'en
recenser les principaux traits et de fixer les definitions des
notions cles. L'enjeu de ce travail depasse largement la seule
question de la nature de l'imagination: la maniere dont Husserl
repense l'imaginaire implique un bouleversement profond de notre
conception du reel meme. Ce dernier se revele etre beaucoup moins
implacable, plus spirituel et flottant qu'on ne le croit
communement. On peut montrer correlativement que cette conception
originale de l'imaginaire apporte un eclairage nouveau sur la
reflexion de Husserl concernant la crise."
The term "Anthropocene", the era of mankind, is increasingly being
used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch.
This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems
worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces
in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the
Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and
place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic
(human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our
impact on the living conditions of animals, others question
conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the
complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene
idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals,
and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world,
as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of
animals as they used to be before mankinds rise to global
ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with
animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?
The term "Anthropocene", the era of mankind, is increasingly being
used as a scientific designation for the current geological epoch.
This is because the human species now dominates ecosystems
worldwide, and affects nature in a way that rivals natural forces
in magnitude and scale. Thinking about Animals in the Age of the
Anthropocene presents a dozen chapters that address the role and
place of animals in this epoch characterized by anthropogenic
(human-made) environmental change. While some chapters describe our
impact on the living conditions of animals, others question
conventional ideas about human exceptionalism, and stress the
complex cognitive and other abilities of animals. The Anthropocene
idea forces us to rethink our relation to nature and to animals,
and to critically reflect on our own role and place in the world,
as a species. Nature is not what it was. Nor are the lives of
animals as they used to be before mankinds rise to global
ecological prominence. Can we eventually learn to live with
animals, rather than causing extinction and ecological mayhem?
|
You may like...
Higher
Michael Buble
CD
(1)
R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
|