[BOOK][B] Animal rites: American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory
C Wolfe - 2003 - books.google.com
C Wolfe
2003•books.google.comIn Animal Rites, 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, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through
detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in
twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical
practice, to take seriously" the question of the animal."
reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from
Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through
detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in
twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical
practice, to take seriously" the question of the animal."
In Animal Rites, 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, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously" the question of the animal."
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