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Animal lessons : how they teach us to be human
- Title
- Animal lessons : how they teach us to be human / Kelly Oliver.
- Author
- Oliver, Kelly, 1958-
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 09-5820 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 364 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : biting the hand that feeds you : the role of animals in philosophies of man -- What's wrong with animal rights? -- The right to remain silent -- Animal pedagogy -- You are what you eat : Rousseau's cat -- Say the human responded : Herder's sheep -- Difference "worthy of its name" -- "Hair of the dog" : Derrida's and Rousseau's good taste -- Sexual difference, animal difference : Derrida's sexy silkworm -- It's our fault -- The beaver's struggle with species-being : De Beauvoir and the praying mantis -- Answering the call of nature : Lacan walking the dog -- Estranged kinship -- The abyss between humans and animals : Heidegger puts the bee in being -- "Strange kinship" : Merleau-Ponty's sensuous stickleback -- Stopping the anthropological machine : Agamben's ticktocking tick -- Psychoanalysis and the science of kinship -- Psychoanalysis as animal by-product : Freud's zoophilia -- Animal abjects, maternal abjects : Kristeva's strays -- Conclusion: sustainable ethics.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-5820
- ISBN
- 9780231147262 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231147260 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231147279 (pbk.)
- 9780231147279 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2009019725
- OCLC
- YBP 2009019725
- Author
- Oliver, Kelly, 1958-
- Title
- Animal lessons : how they teach us to be human / Kelly Oliver.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-5820