Animals And The Human Imagination
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Animals and the Human Imagination
Author | : Aaron Gross,Anne Vallely |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2012-04-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780231152976 |
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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
Author | : Aaron S. Gross,Aaron Gross,Anne Vallely |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 389 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780231152969 |
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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
Author | : Annabelle Dufourcq |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781000414325 |
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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
Author | : Mark Payne |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2010-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780226650852 |
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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 Cat and the Human Imagination
Author | : Katharine M. Rogers |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2001-03-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0472087509 |
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An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art
Pretending and Imagination in Animals and Children
Author | : Robert W. Mitchell |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2011-06-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521283329 |
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This book provides an overview of recent research presenting conflicting interpretations of children's understanding of the psychology of pretense and describes sociocultural factors which influence children's pretenses. Studies of nonhuman primates provide examples of their pretenses and other simulative activities, explore their representational and imaginative capacities and compare their skills with children. Although the psychological requirements for pretending are controversial, evidence presented in this volume suggests that great apes and even monkeys may share capacities for imagination with children and that children's early pretenses may be less psychological than they appear.
The Imagination Gap
Author | : Brian Reich |
Publsiher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017-03-24 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781787142077 |
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The Imagination Gap helps leaders in every sector apply their imagination effectively to explore new, creative approaches to survive and thrive. Examples from a range of industries and settings, from Broadway to Silicon Valley, with simple steps and exercises, help you stop thinking the way you "should" and start making extraordinary things happen.
Thinking with Animals
Author | : Lorraine Daston,Gregg Mitman |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2005-02-02 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780231503778 |
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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.