Seeing Animals after Derrida
Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | José Alaniz, David Brooks, Megan E. Cannella, Bonnie Gill, David Huebert, Nicole Mennell, Malin Palani, Rodolfo Piskorski, Gavin Rae, Kirsten Strom | ISBN: | 9781498540605 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | November 27, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | José Alaniz, David Brooks, Megan E. Cannella, Bonnie Gill, David Huebert, Nicole Mennell, Malin Palani, Rodolfo Piskorski, Gavin Rae, Kirsten Strom |
| ISBN: | 9781498540605 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | November 27, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture.
This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture.
