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1 online resource (x, 195 pages .) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: The Animal Question in Deconstruction; Chapter 1 A Refugee; Chapter 2 Swans of Life (External Provocations and Autobiographical Flights That Teach Us How to Read); Chapter 3 Love of the Löwe; Chapter 4 Insect Asides; Chapter 5 Sponge Inc; Chapter 6 Elephant Eulogy: The Exorbitant Orb of an Elephant; Chapter 7 Troubling Resemblances, Anthropological Machines and the Fear of Wild Animals: Following Derrida after Agamben. |
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Chapter 8 Derrida, Rousseau, Cixous and Tsvetaeva: Sexual Difference and the Love of the WolfChapter 9 Deconstructing Sexual Difference: A Myopic Reading of Hélène Cixous's Mole; Chapter 10 Your Worm; Chapter 11 Mole; Index. |
| Summary |
How does deconstruction understand relations between humans and other animals? This book reveals that across Jacques Derrida's work as a whole, as well as that of Hélène Cixous and Nicholas Royle, deconstruction has always addressed questions about animality. In this collection, for example, Cixous asks after human intervention between the death of a wild bird and the predation of a domestic cat; Royle examines in what sense the vulnerable impressions made by the tunnelling of a mole might be thought of as the traces of a text; Kelly Oliver pursues Derrida's analysis of what or whose gaze is a. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Animals (Philosophy)
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Animals (Philosophy) |
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Deconstruction.
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Deconstruction. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Turner, Lynn, 1968- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Animal question in deconstruction. 9780748683123 0748683127 |
| ISBN |
0748683143 (electronic book) |
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9780748683147 (electronic book) |
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9780748683123 (hardback) |
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0748683127 (hardback) |
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9780748683130 (paperback) |
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0748683135 (paperback) |
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