Animals, Plants, Things : Nonhuman Storytelling Between Philosophy and Literature
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Crosscurrents
ISBN-10
1474439039
ISBN-13
9781474439039
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
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Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 30th, 2019
Print length
224 Pages
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Social & political philosophy
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Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads the fiction of Yann Martel, Karen Joy Fowler, Han Kang and Jim Crace beside the philosophy of Graham Harman, Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Roger Caillois to propose a method of thinking of and with animals.
Navigates various literary and philosophical approaches to the representation of the nonhuman
Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects--beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy.
Combining recent insights from animal studies, critical plant studies and the new materialisms, Danielle Sands reads fiction and philosophy alongside each other to propose a method of thinking of and with animals that draws on a bestiary of affects. She challenges the claim that empathy should be primary mode of engagement with nonhuman life. Instead, she looks at the stories that we tell, and are told, by insects--beings at the edges of animal life. The indifference, even disgust, that these creatures evoke in us forms the basis for a new ethics not limited by empathy.
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