Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspective

Description: Exploring Animal Encounters by Dominik Ohrem, Matthew Calarco This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts. Exploring Animal Encounters encourages us to think about the richness and complexity of animal lives and human-animal relations, foregrounding the intricate roles nonhuman creatures play in the always already more-than-human sphere of ethics and politics. In this way, the essays in this volume can be understood as a contribution to alternative imaginings of interspecies coexistence in a time in which the issue of human relations with earth and earth others has come to the fore with unprecedented force and severity. Back Cover This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts. Exploring Animal Encounters encourages us to think about the richness and complexity of animal lives and human-animal relations, foregrounding the intricate roles nonhuman creatures play in the always already more-than-human sphere of ethics and politics. In this way, the essays in this volume can be understood as a contribution to alternative imaginings of interspecies coexistence in a time in which the issue of human relations with earth and earth others has come to the fore with unprecedented force and severity. Author Biography Dominik Ohrem is Lecturer and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is editor of American Beasts: Perspectives on Animals, Animality and U.S. Culture, 1776–1920 (2017) and co-editor of Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).Matthew Calarco is Professor of Philosophy at CSU Fullerton where he teaches courses in Continental philosophy and animal and environmental philosophy. He has published numerous articles and books in critical animal studies, the latest of which is Thinking through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction (2015). Table of Contents 1. Some Thoughts on (Animal) Encounter, Dominik Ohrem.- 2. The Three Ethologies, Matthew Calarco.- 3. Hanging Together in a Touch: Friendship and Mourning in the Melancholic Limits of Man, James R. Goebel.- 4. Such Beastly Behavior! Predation, Revenge, and the Question of Ethics, Sarah E. McFarland.- 5. Precarious Encounters, Nicole Shukin.- 6. The Photographer and the Zoo: A Memoir of Mediated Encounters, Randy Malamud.- 7. Bestiality in a Time of Smallpox: Dr. Jenner and the "Modern Chimera", Rob Boddice.- 8. Dissolving into Visibility: Early American Natural History and the Corporeality of Interspecies Encounters, Julie McCown.- 9. Deep History, Interspecies Coevolution, and the Eco-Imaginary, Louise Westling.- 10. Of Primates Bodies: Forms of Human-Other Primate Intercorporeality, Amanda D. Cortez and Agustín Fuentes.- 11. Incorrect and Beautiful Anatomies: Becomings, Immanence, and Transspecies Bodies in the Art of Roberto Fabelo, Christina Garcia. Feature Encompasses a wide range of disciplines including literature, philosophy, queer theory, gender studies, ethics, and sociology Expands upon the widely burgeoning fields of Animal Studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and affect studies Establishes the vitality of transspecies intimacy, a topic that has been vastly under-explored until now Details ISBN3319925032 Publisher Springer International Publishing AG Series Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature Year 2018 Edition 1st ISBN-10 3319925032 ISBN-13 9783319925035 Format Hardcover Imprint Springer International Publishing AG Subtitle Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland Edited by Matthew Calarco Pages 283 Publication Date 2018-08-09 DEWEY 809.93362 Short Title Exploring Animal Encounters Language English DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-92504-2 UK Release Date 2018-08-09 Author Matthew Calarco Illustrations 21 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 283 p. 21 illus. Edition Description 1st ed. 2018 Alternative 9783030064464 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130679418;

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