Monkey Trouble : the Scandal of Posthumanism.

Monkey Trouble explores the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism, which aims to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. This book argues that the displacement of anthropocentrism must cultivate a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Peterson, Christopher
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Series:	Knowledge Unlatched Select 2017 (on order)
Subjects:	Humanism > Philosophy. Philosophical anthropology. Speciesism. Human-animal relationships. Human beings. Philosophy, Modern > 21st century. Philosophy, Modern. Humanisme > Philosophie. Anthropologie philosophique. Spécisme. Relations homme-animal. Êtres humains. Philosophie > 21e siècle. philosophical anthropology. Homo sapiens (species) PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism. LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory. Human-animal relationships Human beings Humanism > Philosophy Philosophical anthropology Philosophy, Modern Speciesism 2000-2099 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Cover; MONKEY TROUBLE; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Introduction; 1. The Scandal of the Human: Immanent Transcendency and the Question of Animal Language; 2. Sovereign Silence: The Desire for Answering Speech; 3. The Gravity of Melancholia: A Critique of Speculative Realism; 4. Listing Toward Cosmocracy: The Limits of Hospitality; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index.