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Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art
Ron Broglio
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Description for Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art
Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 176 pages, 24 b&w illustrations, 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: AC; AGN; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 280.
What it is like to be an animal? Ron Broglio wants to know from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, he bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal phenomenology, to think and feel as an animal other-or any other. Until now phenomenology has grappled with how humans are embedded in their world. According to philosophical tradition, animals do not practice the self-reflexive thought that provides humans with depth of being. Without human interiority, philosophers have believed, animals live on the surface ... Read more
What it is like to be an animal? Ron Broglio wants to know from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, he bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal phenomenology, to think and feel as an animal other-or any other. Until now phenomenology has grappled with how humans are embedded in their world. According to philosophical tradition, animals do not practice the self-reflexive thought that provides humans with depth of being. Without human interiority, philosophers have believed, animals live on the surface ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Weight
280g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816672974
SKU
V9780816672974
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About Ron Broglio
Ron Broglio is assistant professor of English and senior scholar of the Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University.
Reviews for Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art
Learned and intellectually courageous, Surface Encounters brims with counter-intuitive arguments about what it means to tarry thoughtfully with non-human life. This is nothing less than a scholarly manifesto: compact, lively, and pressing, as much a rousing call for future imaginings as it is a sober analysis in its own right. -David Clark, McMaster University Surface Encounters is an ... Read more