Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory by Cary Wolfe, W.J.T. Mitchell

Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

Cary Wolfe, W.J.T. Mitchell

252 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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In Animal Rites, 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, Žižek, Maturan...

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