| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 371 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Other animals across cultures -- pt. 2. Animal matters : human/animal and the contemporary west -- pt. 3. Animal others : theorizing animal/human. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human-animal relationships.
|
|
Human-animal relationships. |
|
Animals and civilization.
|
|
Animals and civilization. |
|
Animals -- Study and teaching.
|
|
Animals -- Study and teaching. |
|
Animals. |
|
Other (Philosophy)
|
|
Other (Philosophy) |
|
Animals -- Public opinion.
|
|
Animals -- Public opinion. |
|
Animals -- Psychological aspects.
|
|
Animals -- Psychological aspects. |
|
Animal welfare.
|
|
Animal welfare. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Added Author |
Gross, Aaron S.
|
|
Vallely, Anne, 1966-
|
|
Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
|
|
Doniger, Wendy.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Animals and the human imagination. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231152969 (DLC) 2011041790 (OCoLC)759923248 |
| ISBN |
9780231527767 (electronic book) |
|
0231527764 (electronic book) |
|
9780231152969 (cloth alkaline paper) |
|
9780231152976 (paperback alkaline paper) |
|
