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Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife
Akira Mizuta Lippit
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Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the definition of modernity—essential to developments in the natural sciences and technology, radical transformations in modern philosophy and literature, and the advent of psychoanalysis and the cinema.
Moving beyond the dialectical framework that has traditionally bound animal and human being, Electric Animal raises a series of questions ... Read more
Differentiation from animals helped to establish the notion of a human being, but the disappearance of animals now threatens that identity. This is the argument underlying Electric Animal, a probing exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture. Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the definition of modernity—essential to developments in the natural sciences and technology, radical transformations in modern philosophy and literature, and the advent of psychoanalysis and the cinema.
Moving beyond the dialectical framework that has traditionally bound animal and human being, Electric Animal raises a series of questions ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
307g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816634866
SKU
V9780816634866
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