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Author Seshadri, Kalpana, author.

Title HumAnimal : race, law, language / Kalpana Rahita Seshadri
Published Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages)
Series Posthumanities ; 21
Posthumanities ; 21.
Contents First words on silence -- The secret of literary silence -- Law, "life/living," language -- Between Derrida and Agamben -- The wild child : politics and ethics of the name -- The wild child and scientific names -- HumAnimal acts : potentiality or movement as rest
Summary HumAnimal explores the experience of dehumanization as the privation of speech. Taking up the figure of silence as the space between human and animal, it traces the potential for an alternate political and ethical way of life beyond law. Employing the resources offered by deconstruction as well as an ontological critique of biopower, Kalpana Rahita Seshadri suggests that humAnimal, as the site of impropriety opened by racism and manifested by silence, can be political and hazardous to power
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Philosophical anthropology.
Silence (Philosophy)
Feral children.
philosophical anthropology.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Humanism.
Feral children
Philosophical anthropology
Silence (Philosophy)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780816677894
0816677891
9780816681464
0816681465
9781452948249
1452948240