Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now?

by Kari Weil

Book Overview

Kari Weil provides a critical introduction to the field of animal studies as well as an appreciation of its thrilling acts of destabilization. Examining real and imagined confrontations between human and nonhuman animals, she charts the presumed lines of difference between human beings and other species and the personal, ethical, and political implications of those boundaries.

Weil's considerations recast the work of such authors as Kafka,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231148097
• ISBN13: 9780231148092
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher