Seeing Animals after Derrida (Ecocritical Theory and Practice)

Bezan, Sarah (EDT)/ Tink, James (EDT)

Lexington Books（2017/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781498540599
• DDC分類 179.3

Full Description

This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture.

Contents

Introduction Seeing Animals - Sarah Bezan & James Tink

Part One: New Orientations in Derrida's Philosophy
The Wolves of the World: Derrida on the Political Symbolism of the Beast and the Sovereign - Gavin Rae
The Loaded Cat - David Brooks

Part Two: Posthumous Encounters
"The Most Famous Dog in History": Mourning the Animot in Abadzis' Laika - José Alaniz
The Anterior Animal: Derrida, Deep Time, and Immersive Vision of Paleoartist Julius Csotonyi - Sarah Bezan
"The Dignity of Mankind": Edward Tyson's Anatomy of a Pygmie and the Ape-Man Boundary - Nicole Mennell

Part Three: Beyond Ocularcentrism
Chris Marker's Alter Egos: The Camera and the Cat - Bonnie Gill
Scenting Wild: Olfactory Panic and Jack London's Ocular Dogs - David Huebert
Do Androids Dream of Derrida's Cat? The Unregulated Emotion of Animals in Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Megan E. Cannella

Part Four: New Arrivals
Be/Holding Each Other: Transgenic Invisibilities, Anomaly, and Subjectivity in t