French Thinking about Animals

Louisa MacKenzie, Stephanie Posthumus (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

2015
Michigan State University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61186-152-5 (ISBN)

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Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw on anthropology, ethology, geography, history, legal studies, phenomenology, and philosophy to interrogate human-animal relationships. They explore the many ways in which animals signify in French history, society, and intellectual history, illustrating the exciting new perspectives being developed about the animal question in the French-speaking world today. Built on the strength and diversity of these contributions, French Thinking about Animals demonstrates the interdisciplinary and internationalism that are needed if we hope to transform the interactions of humans and nonhuman animals in contemporary society.

Louisa Mackenzie is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. Stephanie Posthumus is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University in Montreal.

Contents Foreword by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer Introduction Part 1. Animal Histories Building an Animal History - Éric Baratay A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV - Peter Sahlins The Colonial Zoo - Walter Putnam Part 2. Animal Philosophies and Representations The Unexpected Resemblance between Dualism and Continuism, or How to Break a Philosophical Stalemate - Florence Burgat Like the Fingers of the Hand: Thinking the Human in the Texture of Animality - Dominique Lestel Animality and Contemporary French Literary Studies: Overview and Perspectives - Anne Simon Part 3. Animal Intimacies Why “I Had Not Read Derrida”: Often Too Close, Always Too Far Away - Vinciane Despret Chercher la chatte: Derrida’s Queer Feminine Animality - Carla Freccero Paternalism or Legal Protection of Animals? Bestiality and the French Judicial System - Marcela Iacub Part 4. Animals and Environment On Being Living Beings: Renewing Perceptions of Our World, Our Society, and Ourselves - Isabelle Delannoy The Greenway: A Study of Shared Animal/Human Mobility - Nathalie Blanc Wild, Domestic, or Technical: What Status for Animals? - Marie-Hélène Parizeau Bibliography Contributors Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2015
Reihe/Serie	The Animal Turn
Zusatzinfo	24
Verlagsort	East Lansing, MI
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-61186-152-7 / 1611861527
ISBN-13	978-1-61186-152-5 / 9781611861525
Zustand	Neuware