Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy (Crosscurrents) - Hardcover

Sands, Danielle

 
9781474439039: Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy (Crosscurrents)

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Navigates various literary and philosophical approaches to the representation of the nonhuman

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Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway University of London.



Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway University of London.

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Navigates varied approaches to the representation of the nonhumanIs it possible to read, write and think non-anthropocentrically? To compare what literature and philosophy can teach us about the nonhuman?By pursuing underexplored areas of Animal Studies within five interdisciplinary chapters, Danielle Sands proposes a thinking of and with animals that draws on a range of affects from empathy to disgust. Examining the benefits of empathy in facilitating cross-species understanding and kinship, Sands also reveals its limits.Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London and Fellow at the Forum for Philosophy, LSE.

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Navigates varied approaches to the representation of the nonhumanIs it possible to read, write and think non-anthropocentrically? To compare what literature and philosophy can teach us about the nonhuman?By pursuing underexplored areas of Animal Studies within five interdisciplinary chapters, Danielle Sands proposes a thinking of and with animals that draws on a range of affects from empathy to disgust. Examining the benefits of empathy in facilitating cross-species understanding and kinship, Sands also reveals its limits.Danielle Sands is Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway, University of London and Fellow at the Forum for Philosophy, LSE.

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ISBN 10:  1474439047 ISBN 13:  9781474439046
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2021
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