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Critical Environments
University of Minnesota Press 1998; US$ 67.50Cary Wolfe investigates three of the most significant strains of postmodern theory?pragmatism, systems theory, and poststructuralism?and shows how each confronts the specter of an ?outside? not wholly constituted by discourses, language games, and interpretive communities. He then assesses these confrontations in light of an essentially pragmatic view... more...
What Is Posthumanism?
University of Minnesota Press 2009; US$ 75.00What does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, society and nature, human and animal, organic and technological? Can a new kind of humanitiesposthumanitiesrespond to the redefinition of humanitys... more...
The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 37.00Cary Wolfe analyses the dynamics and consequences of radical individualism and the sort of cultural critique it generates in Ralph Waldo Emerson and Ezra Pound. more...
Before the Law
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 18.00Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law , Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans... more...
Observing Complexity
University of Minnesota Press 2000; US$ 72.00Brings the major concepts and foremost thinkers of systems theory into interaction with the major figures of postmodern theory. The format is multiplex and open?a rich montage, including interviews, exemplary essays, and staged dialogues. more...
Animal Rites
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00In Animal Rites , Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism,... more...
The Other Emerson
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 83.00Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most significant figures in nineteenth-century American literature and culture-indeed, this collection argues, in the history of philosophy. The Other Emerson is a thorough reassessment of the philosophical underpinnings, theoretical innovations, and ethical and political implications of the prose writings of one of... more...
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