Outside the Anthropological Machine Crossing the Human-Animal Divide and Other Exit Strategies

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals' lives and points of view. By decentering human concerns and foregrounding animals' perceptual and cognitive worlds, it urges us to "unlearn" no more and no less than our species' arrogance.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Chiara Mengozzi is a researcher at Charles University in Prague (Faculty of Arts), where she teaches literary theory, as well as Italian and French contemporary literatures. She is also Associated Researcher at CEFRES in Prague (French Research Center in Social Sciences). Her research focuses on animal studies, ecocriticism, climate fiction, postcolonial and migrant literatures, world literature, and translation and reception theory. She is the author of an Italian monograph entitled Narrazioni contese. Vent’anni di scritture italiane della migrazione (2013). She is currently investigating the relation between science and literature in the context of climate change.

Zusammenfassung

This book is to free the humanities from their anthropocentric frame and explore how they might instead deepen our understanding of animals’ lives and points of view. By decentering human concerns and foregrounding animals’ perceptual and cognitive worlds, it urges us to "unlearn" no more and no less than our species’ arrogance.

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Chiara Mengozzi (Herausgeber)
• Autoren: Chiara Mengozzi
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2020
• Thema: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sonstiges; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik
• EAN: 9780367504441
• ISBN: 978-0-367-50444-1
• Anzahl Seiten: 284
• Serie: Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
• Themen: NATURE / Animals / General, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Anthropology, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Posthumanism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Animal Studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Cultured Meat, Horror movie, Sea water, Zoopoetics, Young Man, National Library, Zoē, multispecies relationships, animal agency, water park, zoo managers, human animal boundaries, animal perspective in humanities research, POV Shot, Deleuzo Guattarian Philosophy, Mouse Folk, Works Progress Administration Interviews, UVB Ray, Human Animal Encounters, Zoo Keepers, De Bruyckere, Villiers De, Limbic Pairings, Coral Tank, Dominique Lestel, Wirth Photo