The Human–Animal Boundary: Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction - Couverture souple

Wenning, Mario

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498557848 ISBN 13 : 9781498557849

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2021

Synopsis

Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference-rather than a porous transition-between the human and animal. Attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans..



This book shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the questions "What is human?" and "What is animal?" What makes this collection unique is that it fills a lacuna in critical animal studies and the growing field of ecocriticism. It is the first collection that establishes a productive encounter between philosophical perspectives on the human-animal boundary and those that draw on fictional literature. The objective is to establish a dialogue between those disciplines with the goal of expanding the imaginative scope of human-animal relationships. The contributions thus do not only trace and deconstruct the boundaries dividing humans and nonhuman animals, they also present the reader with alternative perspectives on the porous continuum and surprising reversal of what appears as human and what as nonhuman.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Nandita Batra is currently Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez. She is the editor of Of Mice and Men: Animals and Human Culture and This Watery World: Humans and the Sea.

Mario Wenning is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macau. He is the editor of Comparative Perspectives on the Philosophy of Nature and Contemporary Perspectives on Critical Theory and Systems Theory.

Kristian Bjørkdahl is postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment at the University of Oslo.

Tomaz Grusovnik is associate professor of philosophy and senior research fellow at the Faculty of Education, University of Primorska, and at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Sukanya Behura Senapati is professor of English at the University of South Florida.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498557848
• ISBN 13: 9781498557849
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 242
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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