Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to LÃ©vinas, Derrida, Å½iÅ¾ek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal."
Country USA
Brand University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer University of Chicago Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2003-02-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780226905143

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory