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Animals and the human imagination : a companion to animal studies
题名:
Animals and the human imagination : a companion to animal studies
著者:
Gross, Aaron.

Vallely, Anne, 1966-
ISBN:
9780231152976
出版信息:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2012.
规格:
xiv, 371 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
摘要:
Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals' significance in human self-conception. Thinkers such as French philosopher Jacques Derrida, South African novelist J.M. Coetzee, and American theorist Donna Haraway have initiated rigorous inquiries into the question of the animal, now blossoming in a number of directions. It is no longer strange to say that if animals did not exist, we would have to invent them. This interdisciplinary and.

pt. 1. Other animals across cultures -- pt. 2. Animal matters : human/animal and the contemporary west -- pt. 3. Animal others : theorizing animal/human.
主题:
Human-animal relationships.
Animals and civilization.
Animals -- Study and teaching.
Other (Philosophy)
Animals -- Public opinion.
Animals -- Psychological aspects
Animal welfare.
摘要:
Human beings have long imagined their subjectivity, ethics, and ancestry with and through animals, yet not until the mid-twentieth century did contemporary thought reflect critically on animals' significance in human self-conception. Thinkers such as French philosopher Jacques Derrida, South African novelist J.M. Coetzee, and American theorist Donna Haraway have initiated rigorous inquiries into the question of the animal, now blossoming in a number of directions. It is no longer strange to say that if animals did not exist, we would have to invent them. This interdisciplinary and.

pt. 1. Other animals across cultures -- pt. 2. Animal matters : human/animal and the contemporary west -- pt. 3. Animal others : theorizing animal/human.