How encounters with nonhuman animals compel us to rethink the very category of the human
This volume turns to one of the most consequential questions in contemporary literary and cultural studies: how encounters with nonhuman animals compel us to rethink the very category of the human. Rather than treating animals as symbols, metaphors, or passive objects of representation, the contributions gathered here approach them as participants in shared worlds whose presence unsettles inherited distinctions between culture and nature, subject and object, self and other.
Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec
Prof. Dr. Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec ist Professorin für Literatur mit dem Schwerpunkt Mediävistik an der Universität Warschau, Polen.
animal studies human-animal studies interspecies relations interspecies encounters ethics postanthropocentrism postanthropocentric ethics literary studies