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  1. Animal rites
    American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory
    Author: Wolfe, Cary
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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... more

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    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'.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780226905129; 0226905128
    RVK Categories: HU 1075 ; BS 7295 ; CC 7200 ; LC 17000
    Subjects: Kultur; Mensch; Tiere; Tierrecht; Tierethik; Posthumanismus; Mensch <Motiv>; Tiere <Motiv>; Literatur; Film; Das Animalische; Ethik; Humanismus
    Other subjects: Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961); Crichton, Michael (1942-2008): Congo
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 237 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index
  2. Animal rites
    American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory
    Author: Wolfe, Cary
    Published: ©2003
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226905128; 0226905136; 0226905144; 9780226905129; 9780226905136; 9780226905143
    Subjects: Philosophy; NATURE / Animal Rights; Mens-dier-relatie; Subject (filosofie); Soorten (biologie); Letterkunde; Films; The silence of the lambs (Demme); Film; Literatur; Philosophie; Animal rights; Species; Humanism; Human-animal relationships in literature; Human-animal relationships in motion pictures; Tierethik; Posthumanismus
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 237 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index

    Old orders for new: ecology, animal rights and the poverty of humanism -- In the shadow of Wttgenstein's Lion: language, ethics, and the question of the animal -- Subject to sacrifice: ideology, psychoanalysis, and the discourse of species in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of The Lambs (with Jonathan Elmer) -- Aficionados and friend killers: rearticulating race and gender via species in Hemingway -- Faux posthumanism: the discourse of species and the neocolonial project in Michael Crichton's Congo -- Conclusion: postmodern ethics, thequestion of the animal, and the imperatives of posthumanist theory

    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'