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

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Author / Creator:	Wolfe, Cary.
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 237 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Animal rights -- Philosophy. Species -- Philosophy. Humanism. Human-animal relationships in literature. Human-animal relationships in motion pictures. Animal rights -- Philosophy. Human-animal relationships in literature. Human-animal relationships in motion pictures. Humanism. Species -- Philosophy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11235064

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ISBN:	9780226905129 0226905128 0226905136 9780226905136 0226905144 9780226905143
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, the author explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously 'the question of the animal'.
Other form:	Print version: Wolfe, Cary. Animal rites. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003 0226905136

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