Exploring animal encounters : philosophical, cultural, and historical perspectives /: philosophical, cultural, and historical perspectives. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dominik Ohrem, Matthew Calarco, editors.
• Editors: Ohrem, Dominik; Calarco, Matthew, 1972-
• Contents: Intro; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Part I: Introductory Essay; Chapter 1: Some Thoughts on(Animal) Encounter; Alterity, Power, andthePolitics ofEncounter; A Postanthropocentric Ethos ofEncounter?; Embodied Relationality; Convivial Worldhood; Creaturely Knowledge; The Contributions; Works Cited; Part II: Re-encountering Animals: Philosophy, Ethics, Politics; Chapter 2: The Three Ethologies; Social Ethology; Environmental Ethology; Mental Ethology; Conclusion; Works Cited; Chapter 3: Hanging Together inaTouch: Friendship andMourning intheMelancholic Limits ofMan A Going Along WithA Thigmotropic Hanging Together; The Work ofMourning andtheMelancholic Limits ofMan; Works Cited; Chapter 4: Such Beastly Behavior! Predation, Revenge, andtheQuestion ofEthics; Works Cited; Chapter 5: Precarious Encounters; Precarity: Becoming-Migrant, Becoming-Woman, Becoming-Species; Precarious Japan; Life onStrike; Works Cited; Part III: Personal Essay; Chapter 6: The Photographer andtheZoo: AMemoir ofMediated Encounters; Works Cited; Part IV: Strange Encounters: Animal Bodies and Species Boundaries Chapter 7: Bestiality inaTime ofSmallpox: Dr. Jenner andthe"Modern Chimera"Dominion andDisease; A New Disease Blossoms; Class andAnimal Taint; Human Exceptionalism andtheIdiom ofFear; Works Cited; Chapter 8: Dissolving into Visibility: Early American Natural History andtheCorporeality ofInterspecies Encounters; Consumed andConsuming Bodies; Bodily Circuits andCrab Invasions; Embodied Perception andDissolving Birds; Works Cited; Chapter 9: Deep History, Interspecies Coevolution, andtheEco-imaginary; Coevolution; Symbiosis; Mimicry; Mimicry, Memory, andSemiotic Scaffolding The Puzzle ofHominin HistoryWorks Cited; Chapter 10: Of Primates' Bodies: Forms ofHuman-Other Primate Intercorporeality; Setting theStage; Human andOther Animals Becoming Together; A Brief Deviation into theMind; Primate Bodies asResearch Tools; Primate Bodies asKin, Primate Bodies asFood; Primate Bodies asMemory: Meaning Making intheAbsence ofBodies; The Murals; The Murals asActants andGhosts; Parting Thoughts; Works Cited; Chapter 11: Incorrect andBeautiful Anatomies: Becomings, Immanence, andTransspecies Bodies intheArt ofRoberto Fabelo; Introduction Thinking EcologicallyThe Tricks ofIllusionism; Silk andImmanence; Insects andArt; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 590; Human-animal relationships; Human-animal relationships -- Philosophy; Human-animal relationships in literature; NATURE / Animals / General; NATURE / Animals / Wildlife; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / General; Human-animal relationships; Human-animal relationships in literature; Human-animal relationships -- Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319925042; 3319925040
• Related ISBNs: 9783319925035; 3319925032
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 6, 2018).
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