Seeing Animals after Derrida.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series .
- Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series .
Cover -- Seeing Animals after Derrida -- Seeing Animals after Derrida -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I -- NEW ORIENTATIONS IN DERRIDA'S PHILOSOPHY -- Chapter 1 -- The Wolves of the World -- Crossing Boundaries -- The Otherness Of Sovereignty -- The Mediation Of Law -- The Proper Place Of The Human -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 -- The Loaded Cat -- The Cat -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II -- POSTHUMOUS ENCOUNTERS -- Chapter 3 -- "The Most Famous Dog in History" -- ANIMALS IN COMICS -- LAIKA -- AFTERLIVES" -- CONCLUSION: WITHOUT WORDS -- NOTES -- Chapter 4 -- The Anterior Animal -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 -- "The Dignity of Mankind" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part III -- BEYOND ORACULARCENTRISM -- Chapter 6 -- Chris Marker's Alter Egos -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7 -- Scenting Wild -- London's Ocular Dogs -- Olfactory Panic -- Queering The Ocular -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 -- Do Androids Dream of Derrida's Cat? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part IV -- NEW ARRIVALS -- Chapter 9 -- Be/Holding Each Other -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10 -- The Surreal Gaze of the Animal Other -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 11 -- Becoming-Animal and the Two Meanings of Animality -- Mirrored Swans -- A Multiplicity Of Feathers -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 12 -- Approaching Apocalypse -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Seeing Animals after Derrida marks a shift in studies of visuality in animal philosophy. Presenting an emergent set of questions for animal studies scholars, this volume intervenes in recent debates of the nonhuman turn that have been incited in the wake of a post-deconstructionist era.