Animal Rites

American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

By: Cary Wolfe, W. J. T. Mitchell (Foreword by)

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Hardcover | 1 February 2003 | Edition Number 1

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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, 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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"Animal Rites offers exciting new readings of a rich variety of texts. This is an original and provocative work that will open up important new arenas of discussion in literary and cultural studies, as well as the discourse of animal rights." - N. Katherine Hayles, author of How We Became Posthuman

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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and the Poverty of Humanism
In the Shadow of Wittgenstein's Lion: Language, Ethics, and the Question of the Animal

Subject to Sacrifice: Ideology, Psychoanalysis, and the Discourse of Species in Jonathan Demme'sThe Silence of the Lambs
Aficionados and Friend Killers: Rearticulating Race and Gender via Species in Hemingway
Faux Posthumanism: The Discourse of Species and the Neocolonial Project in Michael Crichton'sCongo
Conclusion: Postmodern Ethics, the Question of the Animal, and the Imperatives of Posthumanist Theory
Notes
Index
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Animal Rites

American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

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