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Author | : Laurence Simmons |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004157735 |
Drawing on a range of perspectives -philosophy, literary criticism, art history and cultural studies-the essays collected here explore unconventional ways of knowing animals, offering new insights into apparently familiar relationships between humans and other living beings.
Author | : Jim Arnosky |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2000-08 |
Genre | : Animals |
ISBN | : 0689835388 |
Introduces different wildlife habitats, including wetlands, woodlands, cornfields, and grasslands.
Author | : Raymond Tallis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Completes a trilogy that aims to revolutionise our understanding of what it is to be a human being without recourse to theology and supernatural explanations on the one hand or scientism and naturalistic explanations on the other.
Author | : Margo DeMello |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1628952717 |
We live more intimately with nonhuman animals than ever before in history. The change in the way we cohabitate with animals can be seen in the way we treat them when they die. There is an almost infinite variety of ways to help us cope with the loss of our nonhuman friends—from burial, cremation, and taxidermy; to wearing or displaying the remains (ashes, fur, or other parts) of our deceased animals in jewelry, tattoos, or other artwork; to counselors who specialize in helping people mourn pets; to classes for veterinarians; to tips to help the surviving animals who are grieving their animal friends; to pet psychics and memorial websites. But the reality is that these practices, and related beliefs about animal souls or animal afterlife, generally only extend, with very few exceptions, to certain kinds of animals—pets. Most animals, in most cultures, are not mourned, and the question of an animal afterlife is not contemplated at all. Mourning Animals investigates how we mourn animal deaths, which animals are grievable, and what the implications are for all animals.
Author | : Virginia Morell |
Publisher | : Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Animal behavior |
ISBN | : 0307461440 |
Explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising examination into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals.
Author | : Emily Skov-Nielsen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781771315333 |
In Emily Skov-Nielsen's thrumming debut, our consciousness is interconnected with the surrounding trees, bugs, rivers, atmospheres, and cosmos. Here, flowers escape Victorian domestication and ally with girls' green powers of attraction. Here, the social politeness of motherhood and the raw dangers of adolescent sexual awakening are shot through with blood pulsing under the skin, with oxygen exchanged in gasps of breath. Here, everything tender and petalling is also raw and mothervisceral. Book jacket.
Author | : Margo DeMello |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231152957 |
This textbook provides a full overview of human-animal studies. It focuses on the conceptual construction of animals in American culture and the way in which it reinforces and perpetuates hierarchical human relationships rooted in racism, sexism, and class privilege.
Author | : Raymond Tallis |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2019-08-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1474473016 |
A philosophical examination and celebration of the human hand.
Author | : Bruce Brooks |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 73 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780374347420 |
Discusses animals' six senses--seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, and feeling--and how they use them to perceive and react to the world around them.
Author | : Jacques Derrida |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0823227901 |
The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session. The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction--dating from Descartes--between man as thinking animal and every other living species. That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single "the animal." Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses to the question in the work of each of them. The book's autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida's experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the morning. In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. Yet the experiences of nakedness and shame also lead all the way back into the mythologies of "man's dominion over the beasts" and trace a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal his own failings or bêtises. The Animal That Therefore I Am is at times a militant plea and indictment regarding, especially, the modern industrialized treatment of animals. However, Derrida cannot subscribe to a simplistic version of animal rights that fails to follow through, in all its implications, the questions and definitions of "life" to which he returned in much of his later work.