Animal rites : American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory /

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, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexualit...

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Main Author:	Wolfe, Cary
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
Subjects:	Animal rights > Philosophy. Species > Philosophy. Humanism. Human-animal relationships in literature. Human-animal relationships in motion pictures. Casestudies (vorm)
Online Access:	Available via EBSCO eBook Collection
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