Laurence Simmons

Knowing Animals

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In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an 'animal turn', an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the 'animal turn' by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary criticism, art history and cultural studies. The essays collected here describe a lively bestiary of cultural organisms, whose flesh is (at least partly) conceptual and textual: paper tigers, beast fab… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Armstrong, Philip (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-90-04-15773-6
EAN: 9789004157736
Produktnummer: 2726113
Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 296 S.
Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.2 cm x D1.9 cm 562 g
Reihenbandnummer: 4
Gewicht: 562

Über den Autor

Laurence Simmons teaches at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of a book on Freud in Italy and one on contemporary New Zealand photography and painting. He has also co-edited three volumes of essays in critical theory on Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Zizek. Philip Armstrong teaches at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of two books on Shakespeare, and various articles on literary representations of animals. His next book is What Animals Mean (Routledge, 2007).