Monkey trouble : the scandal of posthumanism /
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Author / Creator: | Peterson, Christopher, 1950 February 18-2012, author. |
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Edition: | First edition. |
Imprint: | New York : Fordham University Press, 2018. |
Description: | 1 electronic resource (v, 159 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589623 |
ISBN: | 978082327776 9780823277827 0823277828 9780823277797 0823277798 9780823277803 0823277801 082327781X 9780823277810 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index. Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. |
Summary: | "According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying. The human has become a conspicuous blind spot for many theorists seeking to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. The displacement of the human is essential and urgent, yet given the humanist presumption that animals lack a number of allegedly unique human capacities, such as language, reason, and awareness of mortality, we ought to remain cautious about laying claim to any power to eradicate anthropocentrism altogether. Such a power risks becoming yet another self-accredited capacity thanks to which the human reaffirms its sovereignty through its supposed erasure. Monkey Trouble argues that the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism promotes a cosmocracy that absolves one from engaging in those discriminatory decisions that condition hospitality as such. Engaging with recent theoretical developments in speculative realism and object-oriented ontology, as well as ape and parrot language studies, the book offers close readings of literary works by J.M. Coetzee, Charles Chesnutt, and Walt Whitman and films by Alfonso Cuarón and Lars von Trier. Anthropocentrism, Peterson argues, cannot be displaced through a logic of reversal that elevates immanence above transcendence, horizontality over verticality. This decentering must cultivate instead a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcendency spawned by our phantasmatic humanness."-- |
Other form: | Print version: Monkey trouble New York : Fordham University Press, 2018. 978082327776 |
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