Wolfe, Cary.

Animal rites American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory / [electronic resource] : Cary Wolfe ; foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell. - University of Chicago Press, c2003. - 1 online resource (xv, 237 p.)

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.

9780226905129 (electronic bk.) 0226905128 (electronic bk.)


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)


Electronic books.

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