Seeing Animals after Derrida
Published on 27. November 2017
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-4985-4059-9 (ISBN)
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
16 b/w photos;
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
552 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-4059-9 (9781498540599)
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Sarah Bezan is PhD candidate in English at the University of Alberta.
James Tink is associate professor in the Department of English Literature at Tohoku University, Sendai.
James Tink is associate professor in the Department of English Literature at Tohoku University, Sendai.
Content
Introduction Seeing Animals - Sarah Bezan & James Tink
Part One: New Orientations in Derrida's Philosophy
The Wolves of the World: Derrida on the Political Symbolism of the Beast and the Sovereign - Gavin Rae
The Loaded Cat - David Brooks
Part Two: Posthumous Encounters
"The Most Famous Dog in History": Mourning the Animot in Abadzis' Laika - Jose Alaniz
The Anterior Animal: Derrida, Deep Time, and Immersive Vision of Paleoartist Julius Csotonyi - Sarah Bezan
"The Dignity of Mankind": Edward Tyson's Anatomy of a Pygmie and the Ape-Man Boundary - Nicole Mennell
Part Three: Beyond Ocularcentrism
Chris Marker's Alter Egos: The Camera and the Cat - Bonnie Gill
Scenting Wild: Olfactory Panic and Jack London's Ocular Dogs - David Huebert
Do Androids Dream of Derrida's Cat? The Unregulated Emotion of Animals in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Megan E. Cannella
Part Four: New Arrivals
Be/Holding Each Other: Transgenic Invisibilities, Anomaly, and Subjectivity in t
Part One: New Orientations in Derrida's Philosophy
The Wolves of the World: Derrida on the Political Symbolism of the Beast and the Sovereign - Gavin Rae
The Loaded Cat - David Brooks
Part Two: Posthumous Encounters
"The Most Famous Dog in History": Mourning the Animot in Abadzis' Laika - Jose Alaniz
The Anterior Animal: Derrida, Deep Time, and Immersive Vision of Paleoartist Julius Csotonyi - Sarah Bezan
"The Dignity of Mankind": Edward Tyson's Anatomy of a Pygmie and the Ape-Man Boundary - Nicole Mennell
Part Three: Beyond Ocularcentrism
Chris Marker's Alter Egos: The Camera and the Cat - Bonnie Gill
Scenting Wild: Olfactory Panic and Jack London's Ocular Dogs - David Huebert
Do Androids Dream of Derrida's Cat? The Unregulated Emotion of Animals in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Megan E. Cannella
Part Four: New Arrivals
Be/Holding Each Other: Transgenic Invisibilities, Anomaly, and Subjectivity in t