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French Thinking about Animals.

Mackenzie, Louisa.

French Thinking about Animals. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (233 pages) - The Animal Turn Series . - The Animal Turn Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer -- Introduction -- Part 1. Animal Histories -- Building an Animal History - Éric Baratay -- A Tale of Three Chameleons: The Animal between Science and Literature in the Age of Louis XIV - Peter Sahlins -- The Colonial Zoo - Walter Putnam -- Part 2. Animal Philosophies and Representations -- The Unexpected Resemblance between Dualism and Continuism, or How to Break a Philosophical Stalemate - Florence Burgat -- Like the Fingers of the Hand: Thinking the Human in the Texture of Animality - Dominique Lestel -- Animality and Contemporary French Literary Studies: Overview and Perspectives - Anne Simon -- Part 3. Animal Intimacies -- Why "I Had Not Read Derrida": Often Too Close, Always Too Far Away - Vinciane Despret -- Chercher la chatte: Derrida's Queer Feminine Animality - Carla Freccero -- Paternalism or Legal Protection of Animals? Bestiality and the French Judicial System - Marcela Iacub -- Part 4. Animals and Environment -- On Being Living Beings: Renewing Perceptions of Our World, Our Society, and Ourselves - Isabelle Delannoy -- The Greenway: A Study of Shared Animal/Human Mobility - Nathalie Blanc -- Wild, Domestic, or Technical: What Status for Animals? - Marie-Hélène Parizeau -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

9781609174378


Animals and civilization--France.
Animals--Social aspects--France.
Human-animal relationships--France.
Animals in literature.


Electronic books.

QL85

590

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