French Thinking About Animals

Author : Louisa Mackenzie,Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628950465

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French Thinking about Animals by Louisa Mackenzie,Stephanie Posthumus Pdf

Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw on anthropology, ethology, geography, history, legal studies, phenomenology, and philosophy to interrogate human-animal relationships. They explore the many ways in which animals signify in French history, society, and intellectual history, illustrating the exciting new perspectives being developed about the animal question in the French-speaking world today. Built on the strength and diversity of these contributions, French Thinking about Animals demonstrates the interdisciplinary and internationalism that are needed if we hope to transform the interactions of humans and nonhuman animals in contemporary society.

Author : Kari Weil
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231148092

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Thinking Animals by Kari Weil Pdf

Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals, she charts the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species and the personal, ethical, and political implications of those boundaries. Weil's considerations recast the work of such authors as Kafka, Mann, Woolf, and Coetzee, and such philosophers as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Deleuze, Agamben, Cixous, and Hearne, while incorporating the aesthetic perspectives of such visual artists as Bill Viola, Frank Noelker, and Sam Taylor-Wood and the "visual thinking" of the autistic animal scientist Temple Grandin. She addresses theories of pet keeping and domestication; the importance of animal agency; the intersection of animal studies, disability studies, and ethics; and the role of gender, shame, love, and grief in shaping our attitudes toward animals. Exposing humanism's conception of the human as a biased illusion, and embracing posthumanism's acceptance of human and animal entanglement, Weil unseats the comfortable assumptions of humanist thought and its species-specific distinctions.

Author : Ian P. Wei
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830157

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Thinking about Animals in Thirteenth-Century Paris by Ian P. Wei Pdf

Explores how similarities and differences between humans and animals were understood by medieval theologians, and their significance.

Author : Ceri Crossley
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 3039101900

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Consumable Metaphors by Ceri Crossley Pdf

This book studies the various definitions of animal nature proposed by nineteenth-century currents of thought in France. It is based on an examination of a number of key thinkers and writers, some well known (for example, Michelet and Lamartine), others largely forgotten (for example, Gleizes and Reynaud). At the centre of the book lies the idea that knowledge of animals is often knowledge of something else, that the primary referentiality is overlaid with additional levels of meaning. In nineteenth-century France thinking about animals (their future and their past) became a way of thinking about power relations in society, for example about the status of women and the problem of the labouring classes. This book analyses how animals as symbols externalize and mythologize human fears and wishes, but it also demonstrates that animals have an existence in and for themselves and are not simply useful counters functioning within discourse.

Author : Irving Goh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000712483

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French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK by Irving Goh Pdf

This collection presents a sort of counter-history or counter-genealogy of the globalization of French thought from the point of view of scholars working in the UK. While the dominating discourse would attribute the US as the source of that globalization, particularly through the 1966 conference on the Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man at Johns Hopkins University, this volume of essays serves as a reminder that the UK has also been a principal motor of that globalization. The essays take into account how French thought and literary theory have institutionally taken shape in the UK from the 70s to today, highlight aspects of French thought that have been of particular pertinence or importance for scholars there, and outline how researchers in the UK today are bringing French thought further in terms of teaching and research in this twenty-first century. In short, this volume traces how the country has been behind the reception and development of French thought in Anglophone worlds from the late 70s to the present.

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780823227907

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The Animal that Therefore I Am by Jacques Derrida Pdf

The Animal That Therefore I Am is the long-awaited translation of the complete text of Jacques Derrida's ten-hour address to the 1997 Cérisy conference entitled "The Autobiographical Animal," the third of four such colloquia on his work. The book was assembled posthumously on the basis of two published sections, one written and recorded session, and one informal recorded session. The book is at once an affectionate look back over the multiple roles played by animals in Derrida's work and a profound philosophical investigation and critique of the relegation of animal life that takes place as a result of the distinction--dating from Descartes--between man as thinking animal and every other living species. That starts with the very fact of the line of separation drawn between the human and the millions of other species that are reduced to a single "the animal." Derrida finds that distinction, or versions of it, surfacing in thinkers as far apart as Descartes, Kant, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas, and he dedicates extended analyses to the question in the work of each of them. The book's autobiographical theme intersects with its philosophical analysis through the figures of looking and nakedness, staged in terms of Derrida's experience when his cat follows him into the bathroom in the morning. In a classic deconstructive reversal, Derrida asks what this animal sees and thinks when it sees this naked man. Yet the experiences of nakedness and shame also lead all the way back into the mythologies of "man's dominion over the beasts" and trace a history of how man has systematically displaced onto the animal his own failings or bêtises. The Animal That Therefore I Am is at times a militant plea and indictment regarding, especially, the modern industrialized treatment of animals. However, Derrida cannot subscribe to a simplistic version of animal rights that fails to follow through, in all its implications, the questions and definitions of "life" to which he returned in much of his later work.

Author : Joanne Leyland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154103256X

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Tu as Un Animal? by Joanne Leyland Pdf

Tu as un animal? has been written for 7-11 year olds by a qualified and experienced foreign languages teacher. The lovely storyline and the colourful pictures may though also interest older children. After all, we all enjoy stories! In the story Marc asks his friends if they have a pet, and you can see each pet hiding behind a bush. If you are reading the story with a child / some children, you could ask what pet they think Marc's friend may have, and how you would say that animal in French. On the next page, there are details about what pet the friend has, it's name, it's size and it's colour. If you want to sing a simple song to practice these four lines, then you could sing the four sentences to the tune of frere Jacques. To do this, each line needs to be repeated twice. Towards the end of the story Marc finds a coin and makes a wish. He wishes for a pet. But will his wish come true? Read to the end of the story to find out! Also written by the same author is Cool Kids Speak French (books 1 & 2), Photocopiable Games For Teaching French, Un Alien Sur La Terre, Le Singe Qui Change De Couleur and Cool Kids Speak French On Holiday in France."

Author : Lorraine Daston,Gregg Mitman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231503778

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Thinking with Animals by Lorraine Daston,Gregg Mitman Pdf

Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as humans and humans as animals. As this innovative new collection demonstrates, humans use animals to transcend the confines of self and species; they also enlist them to symbolize, dramatize, and illuminate aspects of humans' experience and fantasy. Humans merge with animals in stories, films, philosophical speculations, and scientific treatises. In their performance with humans on many stages and in different ways, animals move us to think. From Victorian vivisectionists to elephant conservation, from ancient Indian mythology to pet ownership in the contemporary United States, our understanding of both animals and what it means to be human has been shaped by anthropomorphic thinking. The contributors to Thinking with Animals explore the how and why of anthropomorphism, drawing attention to its rich and varied uses. Prominent scholars in the fields of anthropology, ethology, history, and philosophy, as well as filmmakers and photographers, take a closer look at how deeply and broadly ways of imagining animals have transformed humans and animals alike. Essays in the book investigate the changing patterns of anthropomorphism across different time periods and settings, as well as their transformative effects, both figuratively and literally, upon animals, humans, and their interactions. Examining how anthropomorphic thinking "works" in a range of different contexts, contributors reveal the ways in which anthropomorphism turns out to be remarkably useful: it can promote good health and spirits, enlist support in political causes, sell products across boundaries of culture of and nationality, crystallize and strengthen social values, and hold up a philosophical mirror to the human predicament.

Author : Maneesha Deckha
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487538255

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Animals as Legal Beings by Maneesha Deckha Pdf

In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called "beingness." In developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies. Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and directed at a legal subjectivity for animals attentive to their embodied vulnerability, and desirous of an animal-friendly cultural shift in the core foundations of anthropocentric legal systems. Theoretically informed yet accessibly presented, Animals as Legal Beings makes a significant contribution to an array of interdisciplinary debates and is an innovative and astute argument for a meaningful more-than-human turn in law and policy.

Author : Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781487501457

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French 'Ecocritique' by Stephanie Posthumus Pdf

Author : Aaron Gross,Anne Vallely
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231152976

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Animals and the Human Imagination by Aaron Gross,Anne Vallely Pdf

This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection reflects the growth of animal studies as an independent field and the rise of 'animality' as a critical lens through which to analyze society and culture, on par with race and gender.

Author : Vinciane Despret
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781452950549

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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Vinciane Despret Pdf

“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the Foreword Is it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces at you? Do apes really know how to ape? Do animals form same-sex relations? Are they the new celebrities of the twenty-first century? This book poses twenty-six such questions that stretch our preconceived ideas about what animals do, what they think about, and what they want. In a delightful abecedarium of twenty-six chapters, Vinciane Despret argues that behaviors we identify as separating humans from animals do not actually properly belong to humans. She does so by exploring incredible and often funny adventures about animals and their involvements with researchers, farmers, zookeepers, handlers, and other human beings. Do animals have a sense of humor? In reading these stories it is evident that they do seem to take perverse pleasure in creating scenarios that unsettle even the greatest of experts, who in turn devise newer and riskier hypotheses that invariably lead them to conclude that animals are not nearly as dumb as previously thought. These deftly translated accounts oblige us, along the way, to engage in both ethology and philosophy. Combining serious scholarship with humor that will resonate with anyone, this book—with a foreword by noted French philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist of science Bruno Latour—is a must not only for specialists but also for general readers, including dog owners, who will never look at their canine companions the same way again.

Author : Beth A. Berkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108423663

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Animals and Animality in the Babylonian Talmud by Beth A. Berkowitz Pdf

This book offers new perspectives on animals and animality from the vantage point of the rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud.

Author : Laura McMahon
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474446402

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Animal Worlds by Laura McMahon Pdf

Focusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the relations between cinematic time and animal life. Through an aesthetic of extended duration, films such as Bestiaire (2010), The Turin Horse (2011) and A Cow's Life (2012) attend to animal worlds of sentience and perception, while registering the governing of life through biopolitical regimes. Bringing together Gilles Deleuze's writings on cinema and on animals - while drawing on Jacques Derrida, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Nicole Shukin and others - the book argues that these films question the biopolitical reduction of animal life to forms of capital, opening up realms of virtuality, becoming and alternative political futures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401200493

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Demenageries by Anonim Pdf

Demenageries, Thinking (of) Animals after Derrida is a collection of essays on animality following Jacques Derrida’s work. The Western philosophical tradition separated animals from men by excluding the former from everything that was considered “proper to man”: laughing, suffering, mourning, and above all, thinking. The “animal” has traditionally been considered the absolute Other of humans. This radical otherness has served as the rationale for the domination, exploitation and slaughter of animals. What Derrida called “la pensée de l’animal” (which means both thinking concerning the animal and “animal thinking”) may help us understand differently such apparently human features as language, thought and writing. It may also help us think anew about such highly philosophical concerns as differences, otherness, the end(s) of history and the world at large. Thanks to the ethical and epistemological crisis of Western humanism, “animality” has become an almost fashionable topic. However, Demenageries is the first collection to take Derrida’s thinking on animal thinking as a starting point, a way of reflecting not only on animals but starting from them, in order to address a variety of issues from a vast range of theoretical perspectives: philosophy, literature, cultural theory, anthropology, ethics, politics, religion, feminism, postcolonialism and, of course, posthumanism.