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The Cat and the Human Imagination
Author | : Katharine M. Rogers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2001-03-28 |
Genre | : Cats |
ISBN | : UOM:39015058207260 |
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An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art
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
Planet Cat
Author | : Sandra Choron,Harry Choron,Arden Moore |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0618812598 |
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Presents more than four hundred lists on various information on cats, including cat breeds, training, and behavior, as well as such topics as famous cats in history, cat food recipes, and gifts for pampered cats.
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.
Looking at Animals in Human History
Author | : Linda Kalof |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-08-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1861893345 |
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Taking in a wide range of visual and textual materials, Linda Kalof in Looking at Animals in Human History unearths many surprising and revealing examples of our depictions of animals.
Children s Literature and the Posthuman
Author | : Zoe Jaques |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2015-02-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136674914 |
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An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children’s literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children’s fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means to be human, and in particular about humanity’s relationship to animals and the natural world. In complicating questions of human identity, ecology, gender, and technology, Jaques engages with a multifaceted posthumanism to understand how philosophy can emerge from children's fantasy, disclosing how such fantasy can build upon earlier traditions to represent complex issues of humanness to younger audiences. Interrogating the place of the human through the non-human (whether animal or mechanical) leads this book to have interpretations that radically depart from the critical tradition, which, in its concerns with the socialization and representation of the child, has ignored larger epistemologies of humanness. The book considers canonical texts of children's literature alongside recent bestsellers and films, locating texts such as Gulliver’s Travels (1726), Pinocchio (1883) and the Alice books (1865, 1871) as important works in the evolution of posthuman ideas. This study provides radical new readings of children’s literature and demonstrates that the genre offers sophisticated interventions into the nature, boundaries and dominion of humanity.
Feline Philosophy
Author | : John Gray |
Publsiher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2020-11-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780374718794 |
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The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats—and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world. In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy. Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.