Animal Subjects

Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the discipline has lagged behind on questions of the animal, including those that address animal suffering in factory farming, product testing and laboratory experimentation, and in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to "Animal Subjects" are scholars and writers whose...

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Although Cultural Studies has directed sustained attacks against sexism and racism, the discipline has lagged behind on questions of the animal, including those that address animal suffering in factory farming, product testing and laboratory experimentation, and in zoos, rodeos, circuses, and public aquariums. The contributors to "Animal Subjects" are scholars and writers whose work, from diverse perspectives, calls into question the boundaries that divide humans from animals, focusing on the medical, biological, cultural, philosophical, and ethical concerns between non-human animals and ourselves. This collection, the first of its kind to feature the work of Canadian scholars and writers in this emergent field, aims to include the non-human animal question as part of the ethical purview of Cultural Studies and to explore the question in interdisciplinary terms.

Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction: Animal Subjects in a Posthuman World......Page 12
2 Chicken......Page 44
3 Selfish Genes, Sociobiology and Animal Respect......Page 50
4 Anatomy as Speech Act: Vesalius, Descartes, Rembrandt or, The Question of “the animal” in the Early Modern Anatomy Lesson......Page 74
5 A Missed Opportunity: Humanism, Anti-humanism and the Animal Question......Page 108
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Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Introduction: Animal Subjects in a Posthuman World......Page 12
2 Chicken......Page 44
3 Selfish Genes, Sociobiology and Animal Respect......Page 50
4 Anatomy as Speech Act: Vesalius, Descartes, Rembrandt or, The Question of “the animal” in the Early Modern Anatomy Lesson......Page 74
5 A Missed Opportunity: Humanism, Anti-humanism and the Animal Question......Page 108
6 Thinking Other-Wise: Cognitive Science, Deconstruction and the (Non)Speaking (Non)Human Animal Subject......Page 136
7 Animals in Moral Space......Page 156
8 Electric Sheep and the New Argument from Nature......Page 188
9 Monsters: The Case of Marineland......Page 206
10 “I sympathize in their pains and pleasures”: Women and Animals in Mary Wollstonecraft......Page 234
11 Animals as Persons......Page 252
12 Power and Irony: One Tortured Cat and Many Twisted Angles to Our Moral Schizophrenia about Animals......Page 270
13 Blame and Shame? How Can We Reduce Unproductive Animal Experimentation?......Page 282
14 On Animal Immortality: An Argument for the Possibility of Animal Immortality in Light of the History of Philosophy......Page 296
Contributors......Page 312
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