Overview
- Encompasses a wide range of disciplines including literature, philosophy, queer theory, gender studies, ethics, and sociology
- Expands upon the widely burgeoning fields of Animal Studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, and affect studies
- Establishes the vitality of transspecies intimacy, a topic that has been vastly under-explored until now
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature (PSAAL)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introductory Essay
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Re-encountering Animals: Philosophy, Ethics, Politics
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Personal Essay
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Strange Encounters: Animal Bodies and Species Boundaries
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Back Matter
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About this book
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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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Exploring Animal Encounters
Book Subtitle: Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives
Editors: Dominik Ohrem, Matthew Calarco
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92504-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92503-5Published: 09 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06446-4Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92504-2Published: 28 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6338
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6346
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 283
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Twentieth-Century Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature