The animal catalyst : towards ahuman theory /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 208 pages .)
Language:	English
Subject:	Human-animal relationships -- Philosophy. Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Speciesism. Philosophical anthropology. Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects. Human-animal relationships -- Philosophy. Philosophical anthropology. Speciesism.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12015727

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Other authors / contributors:	MacCormack, Patricia, editor.
ISBN:	1472529278 9781472529275 9781472527752 1472527755 9781472594266 1472594266 9781472526847 1472526848 9781472534446 1472534441
Language / Script:	Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). English. Print version record.
Summary:	"The Animal Catalyst deals with the 'question' of 'what is an animal' and also in some instances, 'what is a human'? It pushes the critical animal studies in important new directions; it re-examines its basic assumptions, suggests new paradigms for how we can live and function ecologically, in a world that is not simply "ours." It argues that it is not enough to recognise the ethical demands placed upon us by our encounters with animals, or to critique our often murderous treatment of them: this simply reinforces human exceptionalism. Featuring contributions from leading academics, lawyers, artists and activists, the book examines key issues such as: - How "compassion" for animals reinforces ideas of what distinguishes human beings from other animals. - How animal documentaries highlight the problematics of human-based representations of nonhumans. - How speciesism and human centricity are built into the legal system. - How individualist subjectivity works in relation to animals who may not think of themselves in the same way. - How any consideration of animal others must involve a radical deconstruction of our very notion of the "human." This volume is a unique project which stands at the cutting edge of both animal rights philosophies and posthuman/artistic/abstract philosophies of identity. It will be of great interest to undergraduates and researchers in philosophy, ethics, particularly continental philosophy, critical theory and cultural studies"--
Other form:	Print version: Animal catalyst. 9781472526847 1472526848
Standard no.:	40023904566

Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE New Abolitionist Approaches; 1 The War on Compassion; 2 Legal Technology Confronts Speciesism, or We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us; 3 'Beyond' the Singular? Ecology, Subjectivity, Politics; PART TWO Animal Mediators: Philosophy, Film, Literature; 4 Etre aux aguets: Deleuze, Creation and Territorialization; 5 Out of the Labyrinth, into the Métro: Becoming-animal, the Waking Dream and Movements of World in Raymond Queneau and Louis Malle's Zazie dans le métro.
6 The Animal That Therefore I Am Not: Inhuman Mediations on the Ultimate Degeneration of Bios and Zoe via the Inevitable Process of Phenomenophagism7 The Taste of Living; PART THREE Ahumanity: A Liberation of Life; 8 Suicide for Animals; 9 Dark Pedagogy; 10 Self-Harm, Human Harm?; 11 After Life; Bibliography; Index.

The animal catalyst : towards ahuman theory /

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