Animal lessons, how they teach us to be human, Kelly Oliver
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Animal lessons, how they teach us to be human, Kelly Oliver
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Animal lessons
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bibliography
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Kelly Oliver
Sub title
how they teach us to be human
Table Of Contents
Introduction : biting the hand that feeds you : the role of animals in philosophies of man -- What's wrong with animal rights? -- The right to remain silent -- Animal pedagogy -- You are what you eat : Rousseau's cat -- Say the human responded : Herder's sheep -- Difference "worthy of its name" -- "Hair of the dog" : Derrida's and Rousseau's good taste -- Sexual difference, animal difference : Derrida's sexy silkworm -- 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 -- 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 ticktocking 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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