Animal theory : a critical introduction /

Animal theory : a critical introduction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ryan, Derek, author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015] ©2015
Description:	vi, 159 pages : 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Animals (Philosophy) Human-animal relationships. Animals (Philosophy)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10365947

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ISBN:	9780748682195 0748682198 9780748682201 0748682201 9780748682218 9780748682225
Notes:	Includes bibliographic references and index.
Summary:	An account of the challenges and potential in thinking about and with animals. Provides a discussion of theoretical approaches to animals in modern and contemporary philosophy. Offers a guide to concepts in animal theory. Intervenes in current debates by engaging with theoretical issues and suggesting new ways to consider human-animal relations.

Table of Contents:

Animals as humans. Psychoanalytic animals
Anthropomorphism : pitfalls and potential
Writing 'as if' anthropomorphism : 'Lizzie's tiger'
Animal ontology. Humans as animals
Becoming animal
Posthuman animals
Uncomfortable analogies : the lives of animals
Animal life. Everyday animals
Phenomenological worlds
Why not an olfactory art? Timbuktu
Animal ethics. Animal uses and abuses
Beyond animal rights
Eating animals.