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Navigates varied approaches to the representation of the nonhuman
Is it possible to read, write and think non-anthropocentrically? To compare what literature and philosophy can teach us about the nonhuman?
By pursuing underexplored areas of Animal Studies within five interdisciplinary chapters, Danielle Sands proposes a thinking of and with animals that draws on a range of affects from empathy to disgust. Examining the benefits of empathy in facilitating cross-species understanding and kinship, Sands also reveals its limits.
Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London and Fellow at the Forum for Philosophy, LSE.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Ten Statements about Empathy and Animal Studies
1. Fragile Bodies, Cross-Species Empathy and Suspended Allegories: 'It Hurt, It Was Painful - that's all there is to say'
2. Anthropomorphism and the 'Ends of Man' in the Anthropocene: 'My Chimp Nature'.
3. Telling Nonhuman Stories: 'The Secret Contours of Objects'
4. Sexual Politics of Nature Writing and Lepidoptery: 'The Siren Song of Entomology'
5. Insect Ethics and Aesthetics: 'Their Blood does not Stain Our Hands'
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author
Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway University of London.
