Animals And The Human Imagination
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Animals And The Human Imagination
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Author : Aaron Gross
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-24
Animals And The Human Imagination written by Aaron Gross and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-24 with Nature categories.
This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection reflects the growth of animal studies as an independent field and the rise of 'animality' as a critical lens through which to analyze society and culture, on par with race and gender.
Animals And The Human Imagination
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Author : Aaron S. Gross
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2012
Animals And The Human Imagination written by Aaron S. Gross and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Nature categories.
This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection reflects the growth of animal studies as an independent field and the rise of 'animality' as a critical lens through which to analyze society and culture, on par with race and gender.
The Imaginary Of Animals
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Author : Annabelle Dufourcq
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-07-29
The Imaginary Of Animals written by Annabelle Dufourcq and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-29 with Science categories.
This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its profound power over the human imagination. It examines the structural and ethical role that the human imagination must play to provide an interface between humans’ subjectivity and the real cognitive capacities of animals. The book offers a systematic study of the increasing importance of the metaphors, the virtual, and figures in contemporary animal studies. It explores human-animal and real-imaginary dichotomies, revealing them to be the source of oppressive cultural structures. Through an analysis of creative, playful and theatric enactments and mimicry of animal behaviors and communication, the book establishes that human imagination is based on animal imagination. This helps redefine our traditional knowledge about animals and presents new practices and ethical concerns in regard to the animals. The book strongly contends that allowing imagination to play a role in our relation to animals will lead to the development of a more empathetic approach towards them. Drawing on works in phenomenology, contemporary animal philosophy, as well as ethological evidence and biosemiotics, this book is the first to rethink the traditional philosophical concepts of imagination, images, the imaginary, and reality in the light of a zoocentric perspective. It will appeal to philosophers, scholars and students in the field of animal studies, as well as anyone interested in human and non-human imaginations.
The Animal Part
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Author : Mark Payne
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-10-15
The Animal Part written by Mark Payne and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
How can literary imagination help us engage with the lives of other animals? The question represents one of the liveliest areas of inquiry in the humanities, and Mark Payne seeks to answer it by exploring the relationship between human beings and other animals in writings from antiquity to the present. Ranging from ancient Greek poets to modernists like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, Payne considers how writers have used verse to communicate the experience of animal suffering, created analogies between human and animal societies, and imagined the kind of knowledge that would be possible if human beings could see themselves as animals see them. The Animal Part also makes substantial contributions to the emerging discourse of the posthumanities. Payne offers detailed accounts of the tenuousness of the idea of the human in ancient literature and philosophy and then goes on to argue that close reading must remain a central practice of literary study if posthumanism is to articulate its own prehistory. For it is only through fine-grained literary interpretation that we can recover the poetic thinking about animals that has always existed alongside philosophical constructions of the human. In sum, The Animal Part marks a breakthrough in animal studies and offers a significant contribution to comparative poetics.
The Animalizing Imagination
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Author : A. Bleakley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1999-11-26
The Animalizing Imagination written by A. Bleakley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
Animals appear not just as biological creatures, but as vehicles of meaning for human imagination, mind and culture. Animal life may form the basis for an animalizing imagination that can enhance our cultural, religious and aesthetic sensibilities. This imagination is rooted in the pre-modern affective relationship between shamans and their familiars, but can be tracked to our post-modern ecological crisis, where we can reclaim a totemic identification with animals as signifiers of a new ecological understanding.
The Cat And The Human Imagination
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Author : Katharine M. Rogers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-03-28
The Cat And The Human Imagination written by Katharine M. Rogers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-28 with Cats categories.
An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art
Zoologies
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Author : Alison Hawthorne Deming
language : en
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Release Date : 2014-09-22
Zoologies written by Alison Hawthorne Deming and has been published by Milkweed Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-22 with Nature categories.
“Beautifully written essays” on animals, “the real and mythological, the ordinary and the exotic, the wild and the domesticated” (Publishers Weekly). Humans were surrounded by other animals from the beginning of time: they were food, clothes, adversaries, companions, jokes, and gods. And yet, our companions in evolution are leaving the world—both as physical beings and spiritual symbols—and not returning. In this collection of linked essays, Alison Hawthorne Deming examines what the disappearance of animals means for human imagination and existence. Moving from mammoth hunts to dying house cats, she explores profound questions about what it means to be animal. What is inherent in animals that both leads us to destroy and leads us toward peace? As human animals, how does art both define us as a species and how does it emerge primarily from our relationship with other species? The reader emerges with a transformed sense of how the living world around us has defined and continues to define us in a powerful way. “Beautifully written essays on animal and human behavior and biology . . . highly recommended for lovers of words and nature.” —Publishers Weekly “Human beings live in an age in which industrialization and mass extinction are facts of life. But as Deming suggests in this collection, the more people denude the planet of animals, the more diminished they become in spirit . . . Eloquent, sensitive and astute.” —Kirkus Reviews “Serpentine intellect and wry humor.” —Booklist
The Animalizing Imagination
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Author : Alan Bleakley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Animalizing Imagination written by Alan Bleakley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Animals categories.
This text argues that animals appear not just as biological creatures, but as vehicles of meaning for human imagination, mind and culture. Animal life may form the basis for an animalizing imagination that can enhance our cultural, religious and aesthetic sensibilities. This imagination is rooted in the pre-modern affective relationship between shamans and their familiars, but can be tracked to our post-modern ecological crisis, where we can reclaim a totemic identification with animals as signifiers of a new ecological understanding.
Thinking With Animals
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Author : Lorraine Daston
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2005-02-02
Thinking With Animals written by Lorraine Daston and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-02 with Nature categories.
Is anthropomorphism a scientific sin? Scientists and animal researchers routinely warn against "animal stories," and contrast rigorous explanations and observation to facile and even fanciful projections about animals. Yet many of us, scientists and researchers included, continue to see animals as humans and humans as animals. As this innovative new collection demonstrates, humans use animals to transcend the confines of self and species; they also enlist them to symbolize, dramatize, and illuminate aspects of humans' experience and fantasy. Humans merge with animals in stories, films, philosophical speculations, and scientific treatises. In their performance with humans on many stages and in different ways, animals move us to think. From Victorian vivisectionists to elephant conservation, from ancient Indian mythology to pet ownership in the contemporary United States, our understanding of both animals and what it means to be human has been shaped by anthropomorphic thinking. The contributors to Thinking with Animals explore the how and why of anthropomorphism, drawing attention to its rich and varied uses. Prominent scholars in the fields of anthropology, ethology, history, and philosophy, as well as filmmakers and photographers, take a closer look at how deeply and broadly ways of imagining animals have transformed humans and animals alike. Essays in the book investigate the changing patterns of anthropomorphism across different time periods and settings, as well as their transformative effects, both figuratively and literally, upon animals, humans, and their interactions. Examining how anthropomorphic thinking "works" in a range of different contexts, contributors reveal the ways in which anthropomorphism turns out to be remarkably useful: it can promote good health and spirits, enlist support in political causes, sell products across boundaries of culture of and nationality, crystallize and strengthen social values, and hold up a philosophical mirror to the human predicament.
Imaginative Animals
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Author : Lucia Oliveri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Imaginative Animals written by Lucia Oliveri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with categories.