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Description:Attempts to draw a boundary between human and nonhuman animals have involved the artistic imagination as well as philosophical reflection. Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference--rather than a porous transition--between what counts as human and what as animal. The attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g. a capacity for language use, reason, and morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans with regard to animals (which were, in turn, interpreted as speechless, irrational, and amoral). While this form of anthropocentrism has come under attack through animal rights initiatives in recent decades, alternative ways of engaging the human-animal relationship from a philosophical and poetic perspective are rare. The book thus shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question "what is human?" with the question "what is animal?" What makes this collection unique is that it fills a lacuna in critical animal studies and the growing field of ecocriticism in that 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 do thus 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. The essays carefully trace the underlying motivations behind anthropocentrism while also pointing to non-, pre- or postanthropocentric ways of reflecting on what connects humans and nonhumans. The chapters are written by a combination of renowned scholars in the fields of animal studies and ecocriticism as well as innovative emerging scholars in these fields. The contributions are carefully chosen to represent perspectives from different cultures, languages, and epochs.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Human–Animal Boundary: Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (Ecocritical Theory and Practice). To get started finding The Human–Animal Boundary: Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (Ecocritical Theory and Practice), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Attempts to draw a boundary between human and nonhuman animals have involved the artistic imagination as well as philosophical reflection. Throughout the centuries philosophers and poets alike have defended an essential difference--rather than a porous transition--between what counts as human and what as animal. The attempts to assign essential properties to humans (e.g. a capacity for language use, reason, and morality) often reflected ulterior aims to defend a privileged position for humans with regard to animals (which were, in turn, interpreted as speechless, irrational, and amoral). While this form of anthropocentrism has come under attack through animal rights initiatives in recent decades, alternative ways of engaging the human-animal relationship from a philosophical and poetic perspective are rare. The book thus shifts the traditional anthropocentric focus of philosophy and literature by combining the question "what is human?" with the question "what is animal?" What makes this collection unique is that it fills a lacuna in critical animal studies and the growing field of ecocriticism in that 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 do thus 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. The essays carefully trace the underlying motivations behind anthropocentrism while also pointing to non-, pre- or postanthropocentric ways of reflecting on what connects humans and nonhumans. The chapters are written by a combination of renowned scholars in the fields of animal studies and ecocriticism as well as innovative emerging scholars in these fields. The contributions are carefully chosen to represent perspectives from different cultures, languages, and epochs.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Human–Animal Boundary: Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (Ecocritical Theory and Practice). To get started finding The Human–Animal Boundary: Exploring the Line in Philosophy and Fiction (Ecocritical Theory and Practice), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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