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by Cary Wolfe


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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 Lvinas, Derrida, Zizek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal."

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Early in The New Ecological Order, French philosopher Luc Ferry characterizes the allure and the danger of ecology in the post-modern moment.

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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, Zizek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously the question of the animal.

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  • Title Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory
  • Author Cary Wolfe
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date 2003-02-01
  • ISBN 9780226905143 / 0226905144
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.04 x 0.57 in (22.96 x 15.34 x 1.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Culture in motion pictures, Humanism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002020411
  • Dewey Decimal Code 179.3

About the author

Cary Wolfe is a professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY. He is the author, most recently, of Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the Outside and the editor of Zoontologies: The Question of the Animal.
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