Animal Subjects

An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World
Herausgeber: Castricano, Jodey

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Produktbeschreibung

Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the question of the animal has lagged behind developments in broader society with regard to animal suffering in factory farming, product testing, and laboratory experimentation, as well in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to "Animal Subjects" are scholars and writers from diverse perspectives whose work calls into question the boundaries that divide the animal kingdom from humanity, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. The first of its kind to feature the work of Canadian scholars and writers in this emergent field, this collection aims to include the non-human-animal question as part of the ethical purview of Cultural Studies and to explore the question in interdisciplinary terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780889205123
• ISBN-10: 0889205124
• Artikelnr.: 26260276

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader edited by Jodey
Castricano
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Animal Subjects in a Posthuman World Jodey Castricano
Chicken Donna Haraway
Selfish Genes, Sociobiology, and Animal Respect Rod Preece
Anatomy as Speech Act: Vesalius, Descartes, Rembrandt, or "The Question" of
"the animal" in the Early Modern Anatomy Lesson Dawne McCance
A Missed Opportunity: Humanism, Anti-humanism, and the Animal Question
Paola Cavalieri
Thinking Other-Wise: Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and the
(Non)Speaking (Non)Human Animal Subject Cary Wolfe
Animals in Moral Space Michael Allen Fox and Lesley McLean
Electric Sheep and the New Argument from Nature Angus Taylor
Monsters: The Case of Marineland John Sorenson
"I sympathize in their pains and pleasures": Women and Animals in Mary
Wollstonecraft Barbara K. Seeber
Animals as Persons David Sztybel
Power and Irony: One Tortured Cat and Many Twisted Angles to Our Moral
Schizophrenia about Animals Lesli Bisgould
Blame and Shame: Animal Experimentation Anne Innis Dagg
On Animal Immortality: An Argument for the Possibility of Animal
Immortality in Light of the History of Philosophy Johanna Tito
Contributors
Index
Contributors
Lesli Bisgould has worked as a lawyer in Ontario since 1992. She practised
civil litigation at a Toronto boutique firm before establishing her own
practice in animal rights law in 1995. Bisgould was Canada's only animal
rights lawyer for ten years. Currently she is Legal Aid Ontario's Barrister
in Residence, assisting legal clinics in their work on behalf of Ontarios
poorest residents.
Jodey Castricano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Critical
Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, where she teaches
critical theory and Cultural Studies. Her interests lie in posthumanism and
animal studies, and she has also published on the philosopher Jacques
Derrida and is working on an SSHRC-supported book-length study, under
contract with the University of Wales Press, on the influence of
19th-century spiritualism on the rise and practice of psychoanalysis.
Recently she was appointed as a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal
Ethics in the UK.
Paola Cavalieri, whose research interests include ethics, bioethics and
political philosophy, is the editor of the international philosophy journal
Etica & Animali. She is the co-editor, with Peter Singer, of The Great Ape
Project (London: Fourth Estate, 1993) and the author of The Animal Question
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).
Biologist Anne Innis Dagg, PhD, teaches in the Independent Studies program
of the University of Waterloo. Her academic research articles and books
have focused on mammals (especially giraffe and camels), feminism
(particularly as it affects academic women), evolutionary psychology and,
most recently, animal rights. Her most recent publications include The
Feminine Gaze, Love of Shopping Is Not a Gene and Pursuing Giraffe.
Michael Allen Fox is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Queens University,
and Adjunct Professor of Social Science, University of New England
(Australia). He has written, lectured and consulted extensively on animal
ethics issues and is the author of The Case for Animal Experimentation,
Deep Vegetarianism and The Accessible Hegel. His current writing project is
A Student's Guide to Existentialism. He lives in Armidale, New South Wales,
Australia.
Donna Haraway earned a PhD from the Biology Department at Yale in 1972 for
an interdisciplinary dissertation on the functions of metaphor in shaping
research in developmental biology in the twentieth century. She is now
professor and former chair of the History of Consciousness Program at
University of California, Santa Cruz. Her many publications include The
Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness,
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
and the highly influential Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of
Nature.
Dawne McCance is Professor and Head, Department of Religion, University of
Manitoba, and Editor of Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study
of literature. Her book, Medusa's Ear: University foundings from Kant to
Chora L (2004), approaches the conflation of "animal" and "woman" (deaf and
mute female) in founding texts on the modern research university. She is
currently extending this study in a book-length project supported by sshrc,
A Little History of Hearing.
Lesley McLean has recently completed her PhD at the University of New
England, Armidale (Australia). Her thesis is entitled "How Should One Live
with Nonhuman Animals? An examination of the ways three philosophers have
answered this question." Her research interests centre on notions of moral
and imaginative attention with respect to nonhuman animals.
Rod Preece is Professor Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo,
Ontario, and is the author of numerous volumes, including Animals and
Nature: Cultural Myths, Cultural Realities (1999), Awe for the Tiger, Love
for the Lamb: A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals (2002) and Brute Souls,
Happy Beasts and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals (2005).
Barbara K. Seeber is an Associate Professor of English at Brock University
in St. Catharines, Ontario, specializing in eighteenth- and
early-nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of General Consent
in Jane Austen: A Study of Dialogism(2000).
John Sorenson is a professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock
University. His books include Culture of Prejudice; Ghosts and Shadows;
Imaging Ethiopia and Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa. He is
currently working on a study of various representations of animals
supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
David Sztybel completed his doctorate at the University of Toronto,
Ontario, and also an Advisory Research Committee Post-Doctoral Fellowship,
centring on the ethics of vivisection, at Queens University, Ontario. A
Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, he is an advocate for animal
rights, human rights and the environment. He instructs mainly in Critical
Animal Studies at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
Angus Taylor is the author of Animals and Ethics: An Overview of the
Philosophical Debate. He teaches philosophy at the University of Victoria.
Once upon a time he worked in Toronto at the Spaced Out Library (now the
Merril Collection), and wrote Philip K. Dick and the Umbrella of Light, one
of the first extended critical essays on Dick's work.
Johanna Tito was born in the Netherlands and received her early education
there. She did undergraduate work in philosophy and psychology at York
University and received her MA and PhD in philosophy from McMaster
University. She works in the area of phenomenology and is the author of
Logic in the Husserlian Context.
Cary Wolfe has taught at Indiana, SUNY (Albany), and at Rice, where he
currently holds the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Chair in English. He has
published widely on US culture and critical theory in Diacritics, boundary
2, New Literary History, Cultural Critique, New German Critique, and many
others, and is the author of three books and two edited collections. His
book Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and
Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003) was nominated for the MLA's James
Russell Lowell Prize, and the edited collection Zoontologies: The Question
of the Animal (Minnesota) also appeared in 2003. His collection The Other
Emerson (co-edited with Branka Arsic) is forthcoming from Fordham
University Press in 2008, and he is currently completing a book called What
Is Posthumanism?