| Description |
xi, 258 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Human Beasts and Bestial Humans in the Middle Ages / Joyce E. Salisbury -- 2. The Philosophical Beast: On Boccaccio's Tale of Cimone / Gregory B. Stone -- 3. Pantagruel-Animal / Tom Conley -- 4. "When the Beasts Spoke": Animal Speech and Classical Reason in Descartes and La Fontaine / Matthew Senior -- 5. Revolutionary Monsters / Marie-Helene Huet -- 6. Audubon's Ornithological Biography and the Question of "Other Minds" / James W. Armstrong -- 7. What Is "Human"? Metaphysics and Zoontology in Flaubert and Kafka / Marian Scholtmeijer -- 8. Taming the Beast: Animality in Wedekind and Nietzsche / Jennifer Ham -- 9. On Being "The Last Kantian in Nazi Germany": Dwelling with Animals after Levinas / David Clark -- 10. Animal Speech, Active Verbs, and Material Being in E. B. White / Paul H. Fry -- 11. "Surely, God, These Are My Kin": The Dynamics of Identity and Advocacy in the Life and Works of Dian Fossey / Karla Armbruster |
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12. Humanimals and Anihumans in Gary Larson's Gallery of the Absurd / Charles D. Minahen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human beings in literature.
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Human beings -- Animal nature.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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| Author |
Ham, Jennifer, 1956-
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Senior, Matthew, 1952-
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| LC no. |
96038517 |
| ISBN |
0415916097 (cased) |
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0415916100 (paperback) |
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