Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

ISBN-13: 9780226905143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 252 str.

University of Chicago Press; Cary Wolfe

Opis

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 Levinas, Derrida, i ek, 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.""