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This explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the 'animal question'. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of ourselves. This textbook reveals how thinkers on deconstruction, including Jacques Derrida, Helene Cixous and Nicholas Royle, have consistently addressed questions about animality. Cixous questions human intervention between the death of a wild bird and the predation of a domestic cat. Kelly Oliver explores Derrida's analysis of what or whose gaze is at stake when a King oversees the autopsy of an elephant. Royle examines in what sense the vulnerable impressions made by the tunnelling of a mole might be thought of as the traces of a text. Throughout this collection authors explore the politics, and the poetics, of a less human-centred world. They demonstrate that even when this world is viewed through the prism of fields such as literature, autobiography and philosophy, it always shows traces of other animals. It expands the current debate on the 'animal question' through new essays by established authors, such as Peggy Kamuf, Sarah Wood and Judith Still, that critically examine a wide range of texts by Derrida, Cixous and Royle. It includes the first English translation of 'Un Refugie' by Helene Cixous, showing how her approach to relations between humans and other animals is similar to but distinct from that of Derrida. It republishes Nicholas Royle's ground-breaking essay 'Mole'.
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About the Author
Lynn Turner is Lecturer in Visual Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the 'animal question' How does deconstruction understand relations between humans and other animals? This book reveals that across Jacques Derrida's work as a whole, as well as that of Hélène Cixous and Nicholas Royle, deconstruction has always addressed questions about animality. In this collection, for example, Cixous asks after human intervention between the death of a wild bird and the predation of a domestic cat; Royle examines in what sense the vulnerable impressions made by the tunnelling of a mole might be thought of as the traces of a text; Kelly Oliver pursues Derrida's analysis of what or whose gaze is at stake when a King oversees the autopsy of an elephant. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of ourselves. Throughout this collection authors bring to attention the politics and the poetics of a less anthropocentric world. Even when this world is grasped through very writerly fields such as philosophy, literature and autobiography, The Animal Question in Deconstruction demonstrates that we are always marked by traces of other animals. Key Features - Expands the current debate on the 'animal question' through new essays by established authors, such as Peggy Kamuf, Sarah Wood and Judith Still, that critically examine a wide range of texts by Derrida, Cixous and Royle - Includes the first English translation of 'Un Réfugié' by Hélène Cixous, showing how her approach to relations between humans and other animals is similar to but distinct from that of Derrida - Republishes Nicholas Royle's ground-breaking essay 'Mole' Lynn Turner is Lecturer in Visual Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the co-author of Visual Cultures As ... Recollection (with Astrid Schmetterling, 2013) and has edited several issues of the journal parallax. Cover image: courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth (c) Roni Horn. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com
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Explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the 'animal question' How does deconstruction understand relations between humans and other animals? This book reveals that across Jacques Derrida's work as a whole, as well as that of Hélène Cixous and Nicholas Royle, deconstruction has always addressed questions about animality. In this collection, for example, Cixous asks after human intervention between the death of a wild bird and the predation of a domestic cat; Royle examines in what sense the vulnerable impressions made by the tunnelling of a mole might be thought of as the traces of a text; Kelly Oliver pursues Derrida's analysis of what or whose gaze is at stake when a King oversees the autopsy of an elephant. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of ourselves. Throughout this collection authors bring to attention the politics and the poetics of a less anthropocentric world. Even when this world is grasped through very writerly fields such as philosophy, literature and autobiography, The Animal Question in Deconstruction demonstrates that we are always marked by traces of other animals. Key Features -Expands the current debate on the 'animal question' through new essays by established authors, such as Peggy Kamuf, Sarah Wood and Judith Still, that critically examine a wide range of texts by Derrida, Cixous and Royle -Includes the first English translation of 'Un Réfugié' by Hélène Cixous, showing how her approach to relations between humans and other animals is similar to but distinct from that of Derrida -Republishes Nicholas Royle's ground-breaking essay 'Mole' Lynn Turner is Lecturer in Visual Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the co-author of Visual Cultures As ... Recollection (with Astrid Schmetterling, 2013) and has edited several issues of the journal parallax. Cover image: courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth (c) Roni Horn. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com
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- PublisherEdinburgh University Press
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0748683127
- ISBN 13 9780748683123
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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