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.

Table of 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

Product details

Published 27 Nov 2017
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 272
ISBN 9781498540599
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 16 b/w photos;
Dimensions 240 x 157 mm
Series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Sarah Bezan

Anthology Editor

James Tink

Contributor

José Alaniz

Contributor

David Brooks

Contributor

Bonnie Gill

Contributor

David Huebert

Contributor

Nicole Mennell

Contributor

Malin Palani

Contributor

Gavin Rae

Contributor

Kirsten Strom

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