Seeing Animals After Derrida

Seeing Animals after Derrida marks a shift in studies of visuality in animal philosophy. Presenting an emergent set of questions for animal studies scholars, this volume intervenes in recent debates of the nonhuman turn that have been incited in the wake of a post-deconstructionist era.

List of contents

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 - José 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 the GFP Bunny Project - Malin Palani
The Surreal Gaze of the Animal Other: Uncanny Encounters in Magritte and Buñel - Kirsten Strom
Becoming Animal and the Two Meanings of Animality: A Derridean Reading of Black Swan - Rodolfo Piskorski
Approaching Apocalypse: The Typology of Animals in Nicola Barker's In the Approaches - James Tink

About the author

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.

Summary

Seeing Animals after Derrida marks a shift in studies of visuality in animal philosophy. Presenting an emergent set of questions for animal studies scholars, this volume intervenes in recent debates of the nonhuman turn that have been incited in the wake of a post-deconstructionist era.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Tink Bezan
• Assisted by: Sarah Bezan (Editor), James Tink (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781498540599
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4059-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice; Ecocritical Theory and Practic; Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Animal Ecology, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, Zoology and animal sciences