Philosophy and Animal Life - Couverture souple

Cavell, Stanley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231145152 ISBN 13 : 9780231145152

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2009

Synopsis

In Philosophy and Animal Life, Cora Diamond begins with "The Difficulty of Reality and the Difficulty of Philosophy," in which she accuses analytical philosophy of evading, or deflecting, the responsibility of human beings toward nonhuman animals. Diamond then explores the animal question in the more general problem of philosophical skepticism. Focusing specifically on J. M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals, she considers the failure of language to capture the vulnerability of humans and animals.

Stanley Cavell responds to Diamond's argument with his own close reading of Coetzee's work, connecting the human-animal relationship to further themes of morality and philosophy. John McDowell follows with a critique of both Diamond and Cavell, and Ian Hacking explains why Cora Diamond's essay is so deeply perturbing and, paradoxically, favors poetry over philosophy in overcoming her difficulties. Cary Wolfe's introduction situates these arguments within the broader context of contemporary continental philosophy and theory, particularly Jacques Derrida's work on deconstruction and the question of the animal.

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À propos de l'auteur

Cary Wolfe (PhD, English, Duke) is Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English and Founding Director of 3CT: the Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice University. He is the author of a number of books, including Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (Chicago, 2003), What Is Posthumanism? (Minnesota, 2010), and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (Chicago, 2012); he is also a coauthor of Philosophy and Animal Life (Columbia, 2008) and The Death of the Animal (Columbia, 2009). He is also founding editor of the Minnesota series Posthumanities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231145152
• ISBN 13: 9780231145152
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
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