Exploring Animal Encounters Philosophical, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ohrem, Dominik (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Calarco, Matthew (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature
• Subjects: Literature-Philosophy.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature .; Literary Theory.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Postcolonial/World Literature.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Some Thoughts on (Animal) Encounter, Dominik Ohrem
• 2. The Three Ethologies, Matthew Calarco
• 3. Hanging Together in a Touch: Friendship and Mourning in the Melancholic Limits of Man, James R. Goebel
• 4. Such Beastly Behavior! Predation, Revenge, and the Question of Ethics, Sarah E. McFarland
• 5. Precarious Encounters, Nicole Shukin
• 6. The Photographer and the Zoo: A Memoir of Mediated Encounters, Randy Malamud
• 7. Bestiality in a Time of Smallpox: Dr. Jenner and the "Modern Chimera", Rob Boddice
• 8. Dissolving into Visibility: Early American Natural History and the Corporeality of Interspecies Encounters, Julie McCown
• 9. Deep History, Interspecies Coevolution, and the Eco-Imaginary, Louise Westling
• 10. Of Primates' Bodies: Forms of Human-Other Primate Intercorporeality, Amanda D. Cortez and Agustín Fuentes
• 11. Incorrect and Beautiful Anatomies: Becomings, Immanence, and Transspecies Bodies in the Art of Roberto Fabelo, Christina Garcia.