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how they teach us to be human

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An edition of Animal lessons (2009)

Animal lessons

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English
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364

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Animal lessons: how they teach us to be human
2009, Columbia University Press
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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New York

Classifications

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

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
364

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23235375M
Internet Archive
animallessonshow0000oliv
ISBN 13
9780231147262, 9780231520492
LCCN
2009019725
OCLC/WorldCat
709516082, 320798529
Goodreads
7105425

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