Jennifer Ham / Matthew Senior (eds.)

Animal Acts

Configuring the Human in Western History
Herausgeber: Ham, Jennifer; Senior, Matthew

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Animals Acts is a pioneering collection of essays that defines a new field of inquiry--the real and imaginary acts that humans perform with and as animals to define themselves as humans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 376g
• ISBN-13: 9780415916103
• ISBN-10: 0415916100
• Artikelnr.: 21551594

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Ham, Matthew Senior

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Human Beasts and Bestial Humans in the Middle Ages 2. The
Philosophical Beast: On Boccaccio's Tale of Cimone 3. Pantagruel-Animal 4.
"When the Beasts Spoke": Animal Speech and Classical Reason in Descartes
and La Fontaine 5. Revolutionary Monsters 6. Audubon's Ornithological
Biography and the Question of "Other Minds" 7. What Is "Human"? Metaphysics
and Zoontology in Flaubert and Kafka 8. Taming the Beast: Animality in
Wedekind and Nietzsche, 9. On Being 'The Last Kantian in Nazi Germany":
Dwelling with Animals after Levinas 10. Animal Speech, Active Verbs, and
Material Being in E. B. White 11. "Surely, God, These Are My Kin": The
Dynamics of Identity and Advocacy in the Life and Works of Dian Fossey 12.
Humanimals and Anihumans in Gary Larson's Gallery of the Absurd