This volume charts a new course in animal studies that re-examines Jacques Derrida's enduring thought on the visualization of the animal in his seminal Cerisy Conference from 1997, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Building new proximities with the animal in and through - and at times in spite of - the visual apparatus, Seeing Animals after Derrida investigates how the recent turn in animal studies toward new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology prompts a renewed engagement with Derrida's animal philosophy. In taking up the matter of Derrida's treatment of animality for the current epoch, the contributors to this book each present a case for new philosophical approaches and aesthetic paradigms that challenge the ocularcentrism of Western culture.
| ISBN: | 9781498540599 |
| Publication date: | 27th November 2017 |
| Author: | José Alaniz, David Brooks |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Ecocritical Theory and Practice |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Nature Ecological science, the Biosphere Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Zoology and animal sciences |