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Que diraient les animaux, si... on leur posait les bonnes questions ?

Author : Vinciane Despret
Publisher : La Découverte
ISBN 13 : 2707185086
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Que diraient les animaux, si... on leur posait les bonnes questions ? written by Vinciane Despret and published by La Découverte. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les singes savent-ils vraiment singer ? Les animaux se voient-ils comme nous les voyons ? À quoi s'intéressent les rats dans les expériences ? Pourquoi dit-on que les vaches ne font rien ? Ce livre pose vingt-six questions qui remettent en cause nos idées reçues sur ce que font, veulent et même " pensent " les animaux. Elles permettent de raconter les aventures amusantes ou stupéfiantes qui sont arrivées aux animaux et aux chercheurs qui travaillent avec eux, mais aussi aux éleveurs, aux soigneurs de zoo et aux dresseurs. À la lecture de ces récits désopilants, on se demande si les animaux n'ont pas un sens de l'humour bien à eux : ils semblent parfois trouver un malin plaisir à créer des situations qui aboutissent à ce que les plus savants des spécialistes soient désarçonnés, obligés de faire de nouvelles hypothèses risquées et, toujours, de constater que les animaux ne sont pas si bêtes que ça... On se délectera de ces histoires incroyables qui nous invitent à faire de l'éthologie et de la philosophie. Après avoir lu ce livre, on ne regardera plus son chien de la même manière !

What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

Author : Vinciane Despret
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781452954394
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? written by Vinciane Despret and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vinciane Despret argues that behaviours we identify as separating humans from animals do not actually properly belong to humans. She does so by exploring incredible and often funny adventures about animals and their involvements with researchers, farmers, zookeepers, handlers, and other human beings. Do animals have a sense of humour? In reading these stories it is evident that they do seem to take perverse pleasure in creating scenarios that unsettle even the greatest of experts, who in turn devise newer and riskier hypotheses that invariably lead them to conclude that animals are not nearly as dumb as previously thought.

What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?

Author : Vinciane Despret
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452950547
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? written by Vinciane Despret and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the Foreword Is it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces at you? Do apes really know how to ape? Do animals form same-sex relations? Are they the new celebrities of the twenty-first century? This book poses twenty-six such questions that stretch our preconceived ideas about what animals do, what they think about, and what they want. In a delightful abecedarium of twenty-six chapters, Vinciane Despret argues that behaviors we identify as separating humans from animals do not actually properly belong to humans. She does so by exploring incredible and often funny adventures about animals and their involvements with researchers, farmers, zookeepers, handlers, and other human beings. Do animals have a sense of humor? In reading these stories it is evident that they do seem to take perverse pleasure in creating scenarios that unsettle even the greatest of experts, who in turn devise newer and riskier hypotheses that invariably lead them to conclude that animals are not nearly as dumb as previously thought. These deftly translated accounts oblige us, along the way, to engage in both ethology and philosophy. Combining serious scholarship with humor that will resonate with anyone, this book—with a foreword by noted French philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist of science Bruno Latour—is a must not only for specialists but also for general readers, including dog owners, who will never look at their canine companions the same way again.

The Beautiful Animal

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1786607565
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The Beautiful Animal written by Michael Lewis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can philosophy conceive of a perfect animal? Can it think of the animal as anything other than an imperfect human? This books using the Hegelian dialect to rework the philosophy of nature in order to assign a proper place to the animal.

French Thinking about Animals

Author : Louisa Mackenzie
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628950463
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book French Thinking about Animals written by Louisa Mackenzie and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw on anthropology, ethology, geography, history, legal studies, phenomenology, and philosophy to interrogate human-animal relationships. They explore the many ways in which animals signify in French history, society, and intellectual history, illustrating the exciting new perspectives being developed about the animal question in the French-speaking world today. Built on the strength and diversity of these contributions, French Thinking about Animals demonstrates the interdisciplinary and internationalism that are needed if we hope to transform the interactions of humans and nonhuman animals in contemporary society.

Animots

Author : Matthew Senior
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206658
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Animots written by Matthew Senior and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume of Yale French Studies addresses French-inspired theoretical and philosophical concerns centered on animals and animality. Contributors from France, the United Kingdom, and North America discuss animal-related topics in the French philosophical and literary tradition, offering a wide range of perspectives on animals, ethics, and the future of animal studies. Essays question the reducibility of animal lives to rights discourse on the one hand and scientific empiricisms on the other, and examine whether and how the advent of the posthuman will affect the standing and the future of the nonhuman animal.

Cosmopolitan Animals

Author : Kaori Nagai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137376287
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Cosmopolitan Animals written by Kaori Nagai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmopolitan Animals asks what new possibilities and permutations of cosmopolitanism can emerge by taking seriously our sharing and 'becoming-with' animals. It calls for a fresh awareness that animals are important players in cosmopolitics, and that worldliness is far from being a human monopoly.

Taunting the Useful

Author : Loumille Métros
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1685711111
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Taunting the Useful written by Loumille Métros and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2024-08-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an epoch driven by hyper-consumption and marvelously destructive futility, and in the context of a hegemonic utilitarianism where one goes to university to work rather than to “develop a meaningful philosophy of life,” the concept of the useful is perhaps one most in need of interrogation. Taunting the Useful seeks to unsettle notions of usefulness and uselessness, not merely by deconstructing these terms, but by sidetracking them. It doesn’t reverse things by saying that what is useless is useful. Rather, taunting is teasing, heckling, tickling, scratching the useful. By elaborating a notion of the “virtual useless,” Taunting the Useful seeks to tease the dimensions of wonder, use, and play, through modalities, contingencies, and potentialities of the useless-useful. An experimental book, it (un)does what it tells, and is as much an object taunting and taunted as it is a description of taunting the useful. Includes bonus chapters!

The Philosophical Ethology of Vinciane Despret

Author : Brett Buchanan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351657127
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Ethology of Vinciane Despret written by Brett Buchanan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vinciane Despret is a Belgian philosopher whose work proposes new questions and approaches to human-animal relations. Of central importance to her thought is an intellectual and cultural proposal to allow animals to show their agency and allow them to be interesting. With genuine curiosity, Despret looks at how humans and animals transform one another through daily encounters, and she explores these metamorphoses through an engagement with the history of philosophy, literature, science, field research, and art. In a playful though serious tone, Despret claims that animals are always more interesting than we give them credit for, and that the achievements of animals are never far from our own. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Afro-Dog

Author : Bénédicte Boisseron
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546742
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Afro-Dog written by Bénédicte Boisseron and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The animal-rights organization PETA asked “Are Animals the New Slaves?” in a controversial 2005 fundraising campaign; that same year, after the Humane Society rescued pets in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while black residents were neglected, some declared that white America cares more about pets than black people. These are but two recent examples of a centuries-long history in which black life has been pitted against animal life. Does comparing human and animal suffering trivialize black pain, or might the intersections of racialization and animalization shed light on interlinked forms of oppression? In Afro-Dog, Bénédicte Boisseron investigates the relationship between race and the animal in the history and culture of the Americas and the black Atlantic, exposing a hegemonic system that compulsively links and opposes blackness and animality to measure the value of life. She analyzes the association between black civil disobedience and canine repression, a history that spans the era of slavery through the use of police dogs against protesters during the civil rights movement of the 1960s to today in places like Ferguson, Missouri. She also traces the lineage of blackness and the animal in Caribbean literature and struggles over minorities’ right to pet ownership alongside nuanced readings of Derrida and other French theorists. Drawing on recent debates on black lives and animal welfare, Afro-Dog reframes the fast-growing interest in human–animal relationships by positioning blackness as a focus of animal inquiry, opening new possibilities for animal studies and black studies to think side by side.

Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast

Author : Julian Yates
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452953430
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast written by Julian Yates and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what senses do animals, plants, and minerals “write”? How does their “writing” mark our livesour past, present, and future? Addressing such questions with an exhilarating blend of creative flair and theoretical depth, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast traces how the lives of, yes, sheep, oranges, gold, and yeast mark the stories of those animals we call “human.” Bringing together often separate conversations in animal studies, plant studies, ecotheory, and biopolitics, Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast crafts scripts for literary and historical study that embrace the fact that we come into being through our relations to other animal, plant, fungal, microbial, viral, mineral, and chemical actors. The book opens and closes in the company of a Shakespearean character talking through his painful encounter with the skin of a lamb (in the form of parchment). This encounter stages a visceral awareness of what Julian Yates names a “multispecies impression,” the way all acts of writing are saturated with the “writing” of other beings. Yates then develops a multimodal reading strategy that traces a series of anthropo-zoo-genetic figures that derive from our comaking with sheep (keyed to the story of biopolitics), oranges (keyed to economy), and yeast (keyed to the notion of foundation or infrastructure). Working with an array of materials (published and archival), across disciplines and historical periods (Classical to postmodern), the book allows sheep, oranges, and yeast to dictate their own chronologies and plot their own stories. What emerges is a methodology that fundamentally alters what it means to read in the twenty-first century.

The Philosophical Ethology of Roberto Marchesini

Author : Jeffrey Bussolini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351628895
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophical Ethology of Roberto Marchesini written by Jeffrey Bussolini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roberto Marchesini is an Italian philosopher and ethologist whose work is significant for the rethinking of animality and human–animal relations. Throughout such important books as Il dio Pan (1988), Il concetto di soglia (1996), Post-human (2002), Intelligenze plurime (2008), Epifania animale (2014), and Etologia filosofica (2016), he offers a scathing critique of reductive, mechanistic models of animal behaviour, as well as a positive contribution to zooanthropological and phenomenological methods for understanding animal life. Centred on the dynamic and performative field of interactions and relations in the world, his critical and speculative approach to the cognitive life sciences offers a vision of animals as acting subjects and bearers of culture, whose action and agency is also indispensable to human culture. In tracing the ways in which we share our lives and histories with animals in different contexts of interaction, Marchesini’s cutting-edge philosophical ethology also contributes to an overarching philosophical anthropology of the human as the animal that most requires the present and input of other animals. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

Sensory Experiences

Author : Danièle Dubois
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027258902
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Sensory Experiences written by Danièle Dubois and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices. This approach, grounded in 40 years of empirical research, is a departure from the analytic, reductive view of human experiences as information processing. The book is structured into two parts. Each author first introduces the situated cognitive approach from their respective sensory domains (vision, audition, olfaction, gustation). The second part is the collective effort to derive methodological guidelines respecting the ecological validity of experimental investigations while formulating operational answers to applied questions (such as the sensory quality of environments and product design). This book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners dealing with sensory experiences and anyone who wants to understand and celebrate the cultural diversity of human productions that make life enjoyable!

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Publisher : Odile Jacob
ISBN 13 : 2738177220
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (381 download)

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Lizard

Author : Boria Sax
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 178023872X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Lizard written by Boria Sax and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our storybooks are full of lizards, but we usually call them something else—dragons, serpents, dinosaurs or monsters. These stories vastly increase their size, bestow wings upon them, make them exhale flame, and endow them with magical powers. Lizards stimulate the human imagination unlike most other animals, despite generally being small, soundless, and hidden from sight in burrows, treetops, and crevices. They can blend into a vast range of environments, from rocky coasts to deserts to rain forests. Their fluid motion can make us think of water, while their curvilinear form suggests vegetation. Their stillness suggests death, while their sudden arousal is like resurrection. This delightful book gives lizards their due, demonstrating how the story of lizards is interwoven with the history of human imagination. Boria Sax considers the lizard as a sensual being—a symbol, a myth, a product of evolution and an aesthetic form. He describes the diversity of lizards and traces the representation of the reptile in cultures including those of pre-conquest Australia, the Quiché Maya, Mughal India, and central Africa. Illustrated throughout with beguiling images, Lizard is a unique and often surprising introduction to a popular but little-understood reptile.

Faces of the Wolf

Author : Bernard Charlier
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004271139
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Faces of the Wolf written by Bernard Charlier and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of the human, non-human relationships in Mongolia, Bernard Charlier explores the role of the wolf in the ways nomadic herders relate to their natural environment and to themselves. The wolf, as the enemy of the herds and a prestigious prey, is at the core of two technical relationships, herding and hunting, endowed with particular cosmological ideas. The study of these relationships casts a new light on the ways herders perceive and relate to domestic and wild animals. It convincingly undermines any attempt to consider humans and non-humans as entities belonging a priori to autonomous spheres of existence, which would reify the nature-society boundary into a phenomenal order of things and so justify the identity of western epistemology.

Is Birdsong Music?

Author : Hollis Taylor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253026482
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Is Birdsong Music? written by Hollis Taylor and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A ground-breaking study of the songs of the pied butcherbird . . . intellectually engaging and also very entertaining as a fieldwork memoir.” —The Music Trust How and when does music become possible? Is it a matter of biology, or culture, or an interaction between the two? Revolutionizing the way we think about the core values of music and human exceptionalism, Hollis Taylor takes us on an outback road trip to meet the Australian pied butcherbird. Recognized for their distinct timbre, calls, and songs, both sexes of this songbird sing in duos, trios, and even larger choirs, transforming their flute-like songs annually. While birdsong has long inspired artists, writers, musicians, and philosophers, and enthralled listeners from all walks of life, researchers from the sciences have dominated its study. As a field musicologist, Taylor spends months each year in the Australian outback recording the songs of the pied butcherbird and chronicling their musical activities. She argues persuasively in these pages that their inventiveness in song surpasses biological necessity, compelling us to question the foundations of music and confront the remarkably entangled relationship between human and animal worlds. Equal parts nature essay, memoir, and scholarship, Is Birdsong Music? offers vivid portraits of the extreme locations where these avian choristers are found, quirky stories from the field, and an in-depth exploration of the vocalizations of the pied butcherbird. “Hollis Taylor has given us one of the most serious books ever written on animal music. Is Birdsong Music? is so engaging that all who care about humanity’s place on Earth should read it. We are certainly not the only musicians on this planet.” —David Rothenberg, author of Why Birds Sing