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Columbia University Press
Language
English
Pages
364

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Subjects

Human beings, Philosophical anthropology, Animal nature, Animals (Philosophy), Human-animal relationships, Animals, Human behavior, SCIENCE, Cosmology, NATURE, Animal Rights, Mensch, Philosophie, Humanität, Wertorientierung, Tiere, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Structuralism & Post-structuralism, Animals & society, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, Philosophy, Animal
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The role of animals in philosophies of man
Part I: What's wrong with animal rights?
The right to remain silent
Part II: Animal pedagogy
You are what you eat : Rousseau's cat
Say the human responded : Herder's sheep
Part III: Difference worthy of its name
Hair of the dog : Derrida's and Rousseau's good taste
Sexual difference, animal difference : Derrida's sexy silkworm
Part IV: It's our fault
The beaver's struggle with species-being : De Beauvoir and the praying mantis
Answering the call of nature : Lacan walking the dog
Part V: Estranged kinship
The abyss between humans and animals : Heidegger puts the bee in being
Strange kinship : Merleau-Ponty's sensuous stickleback
Stopping the anthropological machine : Agamben's tick-tocking tick
Psychoanalysis and the science of kinship
Psychoanalysis as animal by-product : Freud's zoophilia
Animal abjects, maternal abjects : Kristeva's strays
Conclusion: Sustainable ethics.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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113/.8
Library of Congress
B105.A55 O45 2009, B105.A55O45 2009

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p. cm.
Number of pages
364

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OL23235375M
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9780231147262, 9780231520492
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2009019725
OCLC/WorldCat
709516082, 320798529
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7105425

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