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The Human–Animal Boundary

Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction
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Description

Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference—rather than a porous transition—between the human and animal. Attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g., language, reason, or morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans.. This book shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the questions “What is human?” and “What is animal?” What makes this collection unique is that it fills a lacuna in critical animal studies and the growing field of ecocriticism. It is the first collection that establishes a productive encounter between philosophical perspectives on the human–animal boundary and those that draw on fictional literature. The objective is to establish a dialogue between those disciplines with the goal of expanding the imaginative scope of human-animal relationships. The contributions thus do not only trace and deconstruct the boundaries dividing humans and nonhuman animals, they also present the reader with alternative perspectives on the porous continuum and surprising reversal of what appears as human and what as nonhuman.

Author Biography:

Nandita Batra is currently Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico–Mayagüez. She is the editor of Of Mice and Men: Animals and Human Culture and This Watery World: Humans and the Sea. Mario Wenning is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macau. He is the editor of Comparative Perspectives on the Philosophy of Nature and Contemporary Perspectives on Critical Theory and Systems Theory.
Release date NZ
November 27th, 2018
Contributors
  • Contributions by Eduardo Mendieta
  • Contributions by Gary Comstock
  • Contributions by James P. Conlan
  • Contributions by John Hartigan
  • Contributions by Joshua A. Bergamin
  • Contributions by Kristian Bjorkdahl
  • Contributions by Sara Gavrell Ortiz
  • Contributions by Tomaz Grusovnik
  • Edited by Mario Wenning
  • Edited by Nandita Batra
Pages
242
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
Illustrations, unspecified; Tables; Black & White Illustrations
Dimensions
160x229x24
ISBN-13
9781498557825
Product ID
28387430

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