Human–Animal Boundary
Nandita Batra (Redaktør) Mario Wenning (Redaktør) Joshua A. Bergamin (Innledning) Kristian Bjørkdahl (Innledning) Gary Comstock (Innledning) James P. Conlan (Innledning) Sara Gavrell Ortiz (Innledning) Tomaž Grušovnik (Innledning) John Hartigan (Innledning) Eduardo Mendieta (Innledning) Sabine Lenore Müller (Innledning) Aparajita Nanda (Innledning) Sukanya Behura Senapati (Innledning) Alison Suen (Innledning)
«From Aesop’s and Heidegger’s animals to McKibben’s and Bekoff’s anthropocene, the dividing line between homo sapiens and the world’s other species has been supported and abolished, attacked and embraced. As ecocriticism has developed into a discipline, scholars have seen this same human/animal distinction as central to our understanding of ecology and the rise of environmentalism. Batra and Wenning bring together essays that make clear why this debate is so central to our understanding of the role of animals in human life and the role of humans in the lives of animals. »
Ashton Nichols, Beach ’65 Distinguished Professor in Sustainability Studies and Professor of English
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. Les mer
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lexington Books
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781498557825
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
Anmeldelser
«From Aesop’s and Heidegger’s animals to McKibben’s and Bekoff’s anthropocene, the dividing line between homo sapiens and the world’s other species has been supported and abolished, attacked and embraced. As ecocriticism has developed into a discipline, scholars have seen this same human/animal distinction as central to our understanding of ecology and the rise of environmentalism. Batra and Wenning bring together essays that make clear why this debate is so central to our understanding of the role of animals in human life and the role of humans in the lives of animals. »
Ashton Nichols, Beach ’65 Distinguished Professor in Sustainability Studies and Professor of English