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A critical introduction to theoretical approaches to animals and animality
From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Across four thematically organised chapters on ‘Animals as Humans’, ‘Animal Ontology’, ‘Animal Life’ and ‘Animal Ethics’ he offers extended discussions of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Singer, Nussbaum, Adams and Haraway among others, as well as lively readings of contemporary literary texts by Carter, Coetzee, Auster and Foer. Intended as a resource for researchers, students, teachers and all those interested in human-animal relationships,
Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction
provides an accessible and authoritative account of the challenges and potential in thinking about and
with
animals.
Key Features
Provides a wide-ranging discussion of theoretical approaches to animals in modern and contemporary philosophy
Offers an accessible guide to key concepts in animal theory
Intervenes in current debates by critically engaging with theoretical issues and suggesting new ways to consider human-animal relations
Includes close readings of four contemporary literary texts to supplement the theoretical discussion
Contains a list of ‘Key Texts’ and ‘Further Reading’ at the end of each chapter
Derek Ryan
is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent and author of
Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life
(Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2013). His other publications include articles and essays that combine interests in modernism, philosophy and animal studies.
From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Across four thematically organised chapters on ‘Animals as Humans’, ‘Animal Ontology’, ‘Animal Life’ and ‘Animal Ethics’ he offers extended discussions of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Singer, Nussbaum, Adams and Haraway among others, as well as lively readings of contemporary literary texts by Carter, Coetzee, Auster and Foer. Intended as a resource for researchers, students, teachers and all those interested in human-animal relationships,
Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction
provides an accessible and authoritative account of the challenges and potential in thinking about and
with
animals.
Key Features
Provides a wide-ranging discussion of theoretical approaches to animals in modern and contemporary philosophy
Offers an accessible guide to key concepts in animal theory
Intervenes in current debates by critically engaging with theoretical issues and suggesting new ways to consider human-animal relations
Includes close readings of four contemporary literary texts to supplement the theoretical discussion
Contains a list of ‘Key Texts’ and ‘Further Reading’ at the end of each chapter
Derek Ryan
is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent and author of
Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life
(Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2013). His other publications include articles and essays that combine interests in modernism, philosophy and animal studies.
A critical introduction to theoretical approaches to animals and animality
From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Across four thematically organised chapters on ‘Animals as Humans’, ‘Animal Ontology’, ‘Animal Life’ and ‘Animal Ethics’ he offers extended discussions of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Singer, Nussbaum, Adams and Haraway among others, as well as lively readings of contemporary literary texts by Carter, Coetzee, Auster and Foer. Intended as a resource for researchers, students, teachers and all those interested in human-animal relationships,
Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction
provides an accessible and authoritative account of the challenges and potential in thinking about and
with
animals.
Key Features
Provides a wide-ranging discussion of theoretical approaches to animals in modern and contemporary philosophy
Offers an accessible guide to key concepts in animal theory
Intervenes in current debates by critically engaging with theoretical issues and suggesting new ways to consider human-animal relations
Includes close readings of four contemporary literary texts to supplement the theoretical discussion
Contains a list of ‘Key Texts’ and ‘Further Reading’ at the end of each chapter
Derek Ryan
is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent and author of
Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life
(Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2013). His other publications include articles and essays that combine interests in modernism, philosophy and animal studies.
From caged orangutans to roasted pig, from dog training to horse phobias, from communicating bees to ruminating cows, Derek Ryan explores how animals are encountered in theoretical discourse. Across four thematically organised chapters on ‘Animals as Humans’, ‘Animal Ontology’, ‘Animal Life’ and ‘Animal Ethics’ he offers extended discussions of Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Deleuze, Singer, Nussbaum, Adams and Haraway among others, as well as lively readings of contemporary literary texts by Carter, Coetzee, Auster and Foer. Intended as a resource for researchers, students, teachers and all those interested in human-animal relationships,
Animal Theory: A Critical Introduction
provides an accessible and authoritative account of the challenges and potential in thinking about and
with
animals.
Key Features
Provides a wide-ranging discussion of theoretical approaches to animals in modern and contemporary philosophy
Offers an accessible guide to key concepts in animal theory
Intervenes in current debates by critically engaging with theoretical issues and suggesting new ways to consider human-animal relations
Includes close readings of four contemporary literary texts to supplement the theoretical discussion
Contains a list of ‘Key Texts’ and ‘Further Reading’ at the end of each chapter
Derek Ryan
is Lecturer in Modernist Literature at the University of Kent and author of
Virginia Woolf and the Materiality of Theory: Sex, Animal, Life
(Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2013). His other publications include articles and essays that combine interests in modernism, philosophy and animal studies.
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