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Animal rites [electronic resource] : American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory / Cary Wolfe ; foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell.

By: Wolfe, Cary.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2003Description: 1 online resource (xv, 237 p.).ISBN: 9780226905129 (electronic bk.); 0226905128 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Animal rights -- Philosophy | Species -- Philosophy | Humanism | Human-animal relationships in literature | Human-animal relationships in motion pictures | Philosophy | NATURE -- Animal Rights | Mens-dier-relatie | Subject (filosofie) | Soorten (biologie) | Letterkunde | Films | The silence of the lambs (Demme)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Animal rites.DDC classification: 179/.3 LOC classification: HV4708 | .W65 2003ebOnline resources: EBSCOhost
Contents:
Old orders for new: ecology, animal rights and the poverty of humanism -- In the shadow of Wttgenstein's Lion: language, ethics, and the question of the animal -- Subject to sacrifice: ideology, psychoanalysis, and the discourse of species in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of The Lambs (with Jonathan Elmer) -- Aficionados and friend killers: rearticulating race and gender via species in Hemingway -- Faux posthumanism: the discourse of species and the neocolonial project in Michael Crichton's Congo -- Conclusion: postmodern ethics, thequestion of the animal, and the imperatives of posthumanist theory.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index.

Old orders for new: ecology, animal rights and the poverty of humanism -- In the shadow of Wttgenstein's Lion: language, ethics, and the question of the animal -- Subject to sacrifice: ideology, psychoanalysis, and the discourse of species in Jonathan Demme's The Silence of The Lambs (with Jonathan Elmer) -- Aficionados and friend killers: rearticulating race and gender via species in Hemingway -- Faux posthumanism: the discourse of species and the neocolonial project in Michael Crichton's Congo -- Conclusion: postmodern ethics, thequestion of the animal, and the imperatives of posthumanist theory.

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