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Animal rites, American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanism, Cary Wolfe ; with a foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell

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Animal rites

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Cary Wolfe ; with a foreword by W.J.T. Mitchell

American culture, the discourse of species, and posthumanism

Now that supposedly distinguishing marks of humanity, from reasoning to tool use, have been found in other species, how can we justify discriminating against nonhuman animals on the basis of their species? Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism, ethics and animal rights., 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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