Animal lessons : how they teach us to be human /
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| Author / Creator: | Oliver, Kelly, 1958- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Columbia University Press, c2009. |
| Description: | x, 364 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7845282 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : biting the hand that feeds you : the role of animals in philosophies of man
- What's wrong with animal rights?
- The right to remain silent
- Animal pedagogy
- You are what you eat : Rousseau's cat
- Say the human responded : Herder's sheep
- Difference "worthy of its name"
- "Hair of the dog" : Derrida's and Rousseau's good taste
- Sexual difference, animal difference : Derrida's sexy silkworm
- It's our fault
- The beaver's struggle with species-being : De Beauvoir and the praying mantis
- Answering the call of nature : Lacan walking the dog
- Estranged kinship
- The abyss between humans and animals : Heidegger puts the bee in being
- "Strange kinship" : Merleau-Ponty's sensuous stickleback
- Stopping the anthropological machine : Agamben's ticktocking tick
- Psychoanalysis and the science of kinship
- Psychoanalysis as animal by-product : Freud's zoophilia
- Animal abjects, maternal abjects : Kristeva's strays
- Conclusion: sustainable ethics.
