Animal lessons [electronic resource] : how they teach us to be human / Kelly Oliver.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oliver, Kelly, 1958-
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
Subjects:
Animals (Philosophy)
Human-animal relationships.
Human beings > Animal nature.
Philosophical anthropology.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2009 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2009 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction : biting the hand that feeds you : the role of animals in philosophies of man
  • What's wrong with animal rights?
  • The right to remain silent
  • Animal pedagogy
  • You are what you eat : Rousseau's cat
  • Say the human responded : Herder's sheep
  • Difference "worthy of its name"
  • "Hair of the dog" : Derrida's and Rousseau's good taste
  • Sexual difference, animal difference : Derrida's sexy silkworm
  • It's our fault
  • The beaver's struggle with species-being : De Beauvoir and the praying mantis
  • Answering the call of nature : Lacan walking the dog
  • Estranged kinship
  • The abyss between humans and animals : Heidegger puts the bee in being
  • "Strange kinship" : Merleau-Ponty's sensuous stickleback
  • Stopping the anthropological machine : Agamben's ticktocking tick
  • Psychoanalysis and the science of kinship
  • Psychoanalysis as animal by-product : Freud's zoophilia
  • Animal abjects, maternal abjects : Kristeva's strays
  • Conclusion: sustainable ethics.