| Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory Contributor(s): Wolfe, Cary (Author), Mitchell, W. J. T. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0226905144 ISBN-13: 9780226905143 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $32.67 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2003 Annotation: 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 Levinas, Derrida, Zižek, 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animal Rights |
| Dewey: 179.3 |
| LCCN: 2002020411 |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.04" W x 9.04" (0.77 lbs) 252 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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, Zizek, 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Mitchell, W. J. T.: - W. J. T. Mitchellis the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago and editor of "Critical Inquiry".Wolfe, Cary: - Cary Wolfe is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English and founding director of 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice University. He is the author of five books, most recently, Before the Law Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame. |