Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now

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Kari Weil, Thinking Animals: Why Animal Studies Now? (Columbia: Columbia UP, 2012)

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A lively and compelling introduction to essential debates shaping posthumanistic animal theory, Weil shows how modern and contemporary texts trouble ethical positioning in response to questions of animal life by revealing the quality of “bêtise” that philosopher Gilles Deleuze notoriously diagnosed as “the origin of the melancholy that weighs down on the finest human figures.” Her original readings and nuanced translations of French poststructuralist and material feminist theory are a special bonus. - SUSAN McHUGH