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Author |
: Angela N. H. Creager |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1580461204 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781580461207 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Animal-human Boundary by : Angela N. H. Creager
An examination of the difficulties in fundamentally differentiating humans from all other animals.
Author |
: Mario Wenning |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2018-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781498557832 |
ISBN-13 |
: 149855783X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Human–Animal Boundary by : Mario Wenning
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.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans.. 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.
Author |
: Isaac Alderman |
Publisher |
: Fortress Academic |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1978702914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781978702912 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Animal at Unease with Itself by : Isaac Alderman
In this book, Isaac Alderman uses insights from the cognitive study of death anxiety and disgust to examine the animal-human boundary in Genesis 2-3, providing biblical scholars with a case study for how this interdisciplinary approach can be used to analyze texts that deal with themes of mortality, the human body, or the animal-human boundary.
Author |
: Raymond Corbey |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 2005-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521836832 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521836838 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Metaphysics of Apes by : Raymond Corbey
This book traces the discovery and interpretation of the human-like great apes and shows how the taboo-ridden animal-human boundary was challenged.
Author |
: Anna Peterson |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2013-05-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231534260 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231534264 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Being Animal by : Anna Peterson
For most people, animals are the most significant aspects of the nonhuman world. They symbolize nature in our imaginations, in popular media and culture, and in campaigns to preserve wilderness, yet scholars habitually treat animals and the environment as mutually exclusive objects of concern. Conducting the first examination of animals' place in popular and scholarly thinking about nature, Anna L. Peterson builds a nature ethic that conceives of nonhuman animals as active subjects who are simultaneously parts of both nature and human society. Peterson explores the tensions between humans and animals, nature and culture, animals and nature, and domesticity and wildness. She uses our intimate connections with companion animals to examine nature more broadly. Companion animals are liminal creatures straddling the boundary between human society and wilderness, revealing much about the mutually constitutive relationships binding humans and nature together. Through her paradigm-shifting reflections, Peterson disrupts the artificial boundaries between two seemingly distinct categories, underscoring their fluid and continuous character.
Author |
: James J. Sheehan |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1991-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520072073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520072077 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Boundaries of Humanity by : James J. Sheehan
"An excellent interdisciplinary collage . . . of considerable interest to philosophers, psychologists, computer scientists (of a theoretical stripe), sociologists, and others. . . . Rethinking our relationship to animals is very relevant, I believe, to thinking clearly about our current relationships to current (and future) machines."--Keith Gunderson, University of Minnesota
Author |
: Matthew Calarco |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2021-12-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231550963 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231550960 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Boundaries of Human Nature by : Matthew Calarco
Are animals capable of wonder? Can they be said to possess language and reason? What can animals teach us about how to live well? How can they help us to see the limitations of human civilization? Is it possible to draw firm distinctions between humans and animals? And how might asking and answering questions like these lead us to rethink human-animal relations in an age of catastrophic ecological destruction? In this accessible and engaging book, Matthew Calarco explores key issues in the philosophy of animals and their significance for our contemporary world. He leads readers on a spirited tour of historical and contemporary philosophy, ranging from Plato to Donna Haraway and from the Cynics to the Jains. Calarco unearths surprising insights about animals from a number of philosophers while also underscoring ways in which the philosophical tradition has failed to challenge the dogma of human-centeredness. Along the way, he indicates how mainstream Western philosophy is both complemented and challenged by non-Western traditions and noncanonical theories about animals. Throughout, Calarco uses examples from contemporary culture to illustrate how philosophical theories about animals are deeply relevant to our lives today. The Boundaries of Human Nature shows readers why philosophy can help transform not just the way we think about animals but also how we interact with them.
Author |
: Nandita Batra |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2018-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1498557821 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781498557825 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Human-animal Boundary by : Nandita Batra
The Human-Animal Boundary shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question "what is human?" with the question "what is animal?" The objective is to expand the imaginative scope of human-animal relationships by combining perspectives from different disciplines, traditions, and cultural backgrounds.
Author |
: Glen A. Mazis |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2008-09-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791475565 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791475560 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Humans, Animals, Machines by : Glen A. Mazis
Examines the overlap and blurring of boundaries among humans, animals, and machines.
Author |
: Bernice Bovenkerk |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 2016-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319442068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319442066 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans by : Bernice Bovenkerk
This book provides reflection on the increasingly blurry boundaries that characterize the human-animal relationship. In the Anthropocene humans and animals have come closer together and this asks for rethinking old divisions. Firstly, new scientific insights and technological advances lead to a blurring of the boundaries between animals and humans. Secondly, our increasing influence on nature leads to a rethinking of the old distinction between individual animal ethics and collectivist environmental ethics. Thirdly, ongoing urbanization and destruction of animal habitats leads to a blurring between the categories of wild and domesticated animals. Finally, globalization and global climate change have led to the fragmentation of natural habitats, blurring the old distinction between in situ and ex situ conservation. In this book, researchers at the cutting edge of their fields systematically examine the broad field of human-animal relations, dealing with wild, liminal, and domestic animals, with conservation, and zoos, and with technologies such as biomimicry. This book is timely in that it explores the new directions in which our thinking about the human-animal relationship are developing. While the target audience primarily consists of animal studies scholars, coming from a wide range of disciplines including philosophy, sociology, psychology, ethology, literature, and film studies, many of the topics that are discussed have relevance beyond a purely theoretical one; as such the book also aims to inspire for example biologists, conservationists, and zoo keepers to reflect on their relationship with animals.