| Knowing Animals Contributor(s): Simmons, Laurence (Author), Armstrong, Philip (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004157735 ISBN-13: 9789004157736 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $143.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 591.51 |
| LCCN: 2007060853 |
| Series: Human-Animal Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.39" W x 9.52" (1.24 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 fables, anthropomorphs, humanimals, l'animot. In so doing, they investigate the benefits of knowing animals differently: more closely, less definitively, more carefully, less certainly. Contributors include: Laurence Simmons, Alphonso Lingis, Barbara Creed, Tanja Schwalm, Philip Armstrong, Annie Potts, Allan Smith, Ricardo De Vos, Catharina Landstr m, Brian Boyd, Helen Tiffin, Ian Wedde. |