Jennifer Ham / Matthew Senior (eds.)

Animal Acts

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Animal Acts records the history of the fluctuating boundary between animals and humans as expressed in literary, philosophical and scientific texts, as well as visual arts and historical practices such as dissection, circus acts, the hunt and zoos. The essays document a persistent return of animality, a becoming animal that has always existed within and at the margins of Western Culture from the Middle Ages to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780415916097
• ISBN-10: 0415916097
• Artikelnr.: 22236810

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