Animal rites : American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanist theory /

Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little-known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexualit...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Wolfe, Cary.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2003.
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