Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

Exploring Animal Encounters: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

by Matthew Calarco (Editor), Dominik Ohrem (Editor), Matthew Calarco (Editor)

Synopsis

This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts. Exploring Animal Encounters encourages us to think about the richness and complexity of animal lives and human-animal relations, foregrounding the intricate roles nonhuman creatures play in the always already more-than-human sphere of ethics and politics. In this way, the essays in this volume can be understood as a contribution to alternative imaginings of interspecies coexistence in a time in which the issue of human relations with earth and earth others has come to the fore with unprecedented force and severity.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 295
Edition: 1st ed. 2018
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 12 Oct 2018

ISBN 10: 3319925032
ISBN 13: 9783319925035

Author Bio

Dominik Ohrem is Lecturer and Doctoral Candidate at the University of Cologne, Germany. He is editor of American Beasts: Perspectives on Animals, Animality and U.S. Culture, 1776-1920 (2017) and co-editor of Beyond the Human-Animal Divide: Creaturely Lives in Literature and Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

Matthew Calarco is Professor of Philosophy at CSU Fullerton where he teaches courses in Continental philosophy and animal and environmental philosophy. He has published numerous articles and books in critical animal studies, the latest of which is Thinking through Animals: Identity, Difference, Indistinction (2015).