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Knowing animals /

Knowing animals / edited by Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong. - 1 online resource. - Human--animal studies, 4 1573-4226 ; . - Brill eBook titles 2007 . - Human-Animal Studies 4. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004223127. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Materials / Bestiary: An Introduction / Chapter One. Shame, Levinas’s Dog, Derrida’s Cat (And Some Fish) -- Chapter Two. Understanding Avian Intelligence / Chapter Three. What Do Animals Dream Of ? Or King Kong As Darwinian Screen Animal / Chapter Four. "No Circus Without Animals"?: Animal Acts And Ideology In The Virtual Circus / Chapter Five. Farming Images: Animal Rights And Agribusiness In The Field Of Vision / Chapter Six. The Mark Of The Beast: Inscribing ‘Animality’ Through Extreme Body Modification / Chapter Seven. Bill Hammond’s Parliament Of Foules / Chapter Eight. Extinction Stories: Performing Absence(s) / Chapter Nine. Australia Imagined In Biological Control / Chapter Ten. Tails Within Tales / Chapter Eleven. Pigs, People And Pigoons / Chapter . Twelve Walking The Dog / Index / Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong -- Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong -- Alphonso Lingis -- Barbara Creed -- Tanja Schwalm -- Philip Armstrong -- Annie Potts -- Allan Smith -- Ricardo De Vos -- Catharina Landström -- Brian Boyd -- Helen Tiffin -- Ian Wedde -- Laurence Simmons and Philip Armstrong.

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In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an ‘animal turn’, an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the ‘animal turn’ by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary criticism, art history and cultural studies. The essays collected here describe a lively bestiary of cultural organisms, whose flesh is (at least partly) conceptual and textual: paper tigers, beast fables, anthropomorphs, humanimals, l’animot. In so doing, they investigate the benefits of knowing animals differently: more closely, less definitively, more carefully, less certainly. Contributors include: Laurence Simmons, Alphonso Lingis, Barbara Creed, Tanja Schwalm, Philip Armstrong, Annie Potts, Allan Smith, Ricardo De Vos, Catharina Landström, Brian Boyd, Helen Tiffin, Ian Wedde.

9789047419501

10.1163/ej.9789004157736.i-296 DOI

2007060853

GBA703274 bnb

013640397 Uk B0704495 bccb


Animal behavior.
Anthropomorphism.
Human-animal relationships.

QL85 / .K66 2007

591.5/1 179.3