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Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida
Paper, 184 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14023-2
$24.50
/ £14.50
June, 2008
Cloth, 184 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14022-5
$74.50
/ £44.00
"Matthew Calarco's book combines a passion for his subject matter with a keenly penetrating grasp of the complex issues which 'the question of the animal' raises at this juncture of Western history." — Edward Casey, Distinguished Professor, State University of New York at Stony Brook
"Matthew Calarco's Zoographies is that rare breed of book that manages to provide both a critical overview and incisive intervention on the terrain of what is now called 'the question of the animal.' Lucidly written and judiciously argued, this book is required reading for those interested in exploring the most searching and innovative attempts in contemporary thought to confront our moral obligations to nonhuman beings. That confrontation, as Calarco demonstrates, cannot leave the very nature of 'humanity' itself unchanged." — Cary Wolfe, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University
"A remarkable achievement. Matthew Calarco liberates Continental philosophy from its anthropocentrism and in doing so points both to the importance of Continental philosophy in thinking about animals and in eliminating the human-animal distinction for future philosophical investigations." — Carol J. Adams, author of The Feminist Care Tradition in Animal Ethics: A Reader