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- French Thinking about Animals
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Michigan State University Press
summary
Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw on anthropology, ethology, geography, history, legal studies, phenomenology, and philosophy to interrogate human-animal relationships. They explore the many ways in which animals signify in French history, society, and intellectual history, illustrating the exciting new perspectives being developed about the animal question in the French-speaking world today. Built on the strength and diversity of these contributions, French Thinking about Animals demonstrates the interdisciplinary and internationalism that are needed if we hope to transform the interactions of humans and nonhuman animals in contemporary society.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xv-xxii
- Part 1. Animal Histories
- Building an Animal History
- pp. 3-14
- The Colonial Zoo
- pp. 31-46
- Part 2. Animal Philosophies and Representations
- Part 3. Animal Intimacies
- Part 4. Animals and Environment
- Bibliography
- pp. 179-192
- Contributors
- pp. 193-196
Additional Information
ISBN
9781609174378
Related ISBN(s)
9781611861525, 9781628950465, 9781628960464
MARC Record
OCLC
903448464
Pages
232
Launched on MUSE
2015-02-14
Language
English
Open Access
No