Outside the Anthropological Machine: Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies

ISBN-13: 9780367504441 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 284 str.

Chiara Mengozzi

Opis

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals’ lives and points of view. By decentering human concerns and foregrounding animals’ perceptual and cognitive worlds, it urges us to "unlearn" no more and no less than our species’ arrogance.

O autorze

Chiara Mengozzi is a researcher at Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Arts), where she teaches literary theory, as well as Italian and French contemporary literatures. She is also Associated Researcher at CEFRES in Prague (French Research Center in Social Sciences). Her research focuses on animal studies, ecocriticism, climate fiction, postcolonial and migrant literatures, world literature, and translation and reception theory. She is the author of an Italian monograph entitled Narrazioni contese. Vent’anni di scritture italiane della migrazione (2013). She is currently investigating the relation between science and literature in the context of climate change.