| Seeing Animals after Derrida Contributor(s): Bezan, Sarah (Editor), Tink, James (Editor), Alaniz, José (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1498540597 ISBN-13: 9781498540599 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $127.71 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Nature - Science | Life Sciences - Ecology - Nature | Animal Rights |
| Dewey: 179.3 |
| LCCN: 2017042608 |
| Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.18 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Ecology |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture. |