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    Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory
    Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory
    Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory
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    Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory

    By Cary Wolfe and W. J. T. Mitchell

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    In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateJul 15, 2008
    ISBN9780226905129
    Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory
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    Cary Wolfe

    Cary Wolfe is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English at Rice University and the director of 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory. While he is most prominently known for his work in animal studies and posthumanism, his research and teaching covers fields such as systems theory, pragmatism, biopolitics, and American literature and culture. He is the founding editor of the University of Minnesota Press series Posthumanities, to which he contributed the monograph What Is Posthumanism? (2010). He is the author of Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (2003) and Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (2012). His latest projects are: the monograph Ecological Poetics, or, Wallace Stevens’ Birds and a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities on “Ontogenesis beyond Complexity,” on the work of the multidisciplinary Ontogenetics Process Group, of which he is a member.

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