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Książka Accommodated Animal Laurie Shannon

Accommodated Animal

Cosmopolity in Shakespearean Locales

Autor: Laurie Shannon
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Wydawca: The University of Chicago Press
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy w małych ilościach
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464.09 zł
Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hell-hounds. But he used the w...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Laurie Shannon
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2013
strony
304
EAN
9780226924168
ISBN
0226924165
Enbook ID
04550717
Wydawca
The University of Chicago Press
Waga
476
Wymiary
152 x 229 x 25

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Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hell-hounds. But he used the word "animal" only eight times in his work - which was typical for the sixteenth century, when the word was rarely used. As Laurie Shannon reveals in "The Accommodated Animal", the animal-human divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes' famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: "I think, therefore I am." Before that moment, animals could claim a firmer place alongside humans in a larger vision of belonging, or what Shannon terms cosmopolity. With Shakespeare as her touch-stone, Shannon explores the creaturely dispensation that existed until Descartes. She finds that early modern writers used classical natural history and readings of "Genesis" to credit animals with various kinds of stakeholdership, prerogative, and entitlement, employing the language of politics in a constitutional vision of cosmic membership. Using this political idiom to frame cross-species relations, Shannon argues, carried with it the notion that animals possess their own investments in the world, a point distinct from the question of whether animals have reason. It also enabled a sharp critique of the tyranny of humankind. By answering "the question of the animal" historically, "The Accommodated Animal" makes a brilliant contribution to cross-disciplinary debates engaging political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies.

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