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By:Cary Wolfe
Published on 2003-01-01 by U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 9780816641055
Synopsis
Those nonhuman beings called |animals| pose philosophical and ethical questions that go to the root not just of what we think but of who we are. Their presence asks: what happens when |the other| can no longer safely be assumed to be human? This collection offers a set of incitements and coordinates for exploring how these issues have been represented in contemporary culture and theory, from Jurassic Park and the |horse whisperer| Monty Roberts, to the work of artists such as Joseph Beuys and William Wegman; from foundational texts on the animal in the works of Heidegger and Freud, to the postmodern rethinking of ethics and animals in figures such as Singer, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Levinas; from the New York Times investigation of a North Carolina slaughterhouse, to the first appearance in any language of Jacques Derrida's recent detailed critique of Lacan's rendering of the human/animal divide.
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