CIFERAE: A Bestiary in Five Fingers (Posthumanitie
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- Condition
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- ISBN
- 9780816665433
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816665435
ISBN-13
9780816665433
eBay Product ID (ePID)
111315643
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
376 Pages
Publication Name
Ciferae : a Bestiary in Five Fingers
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Epistemology, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, General, Animals / General, Movements / Humanism
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Philosophy, Fiction
Series
Posthumanities Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-000011
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
" CIFERAE is a remarkable accomplishment. Tyler provides the most subtle and thorough analysis of anthropocentrism I have encountered; and his critical reworking of the relationship between animals and philosophy allows for an extraordinarily rich understanding of more-than-human subjectivities." --Matthew Calarco, California State University, Fullerton, "Tom Tyler's reinvention of the bestiary is a remarkable achievement, and Tyler emerges as an engaging storyteller. The book's teeming pages are full of improbable pleasures, pictorial and philosophical. Presented with modesty and wit, the result is an audacious account of what it is not to be human. This is a beautifully written book of exceptional imaginative range and it amounts to nothing less than a poetics of the posthuman." --Steve Baker, author of The Postmodern Animal, " CIFERAE is a remarkable accomplishment. Tyler provides the most subtle and thorough analysis of anthropocentrism I have encountered; and his critical reworking of the relationship between animals and philosophy allows for an extraordinarily rich understanding of more-than-human subjectivities." --Matthew Calarco, California State University, Fullerton, " CIFERAE is a remarkable accomplishment. Tyler provides the most subtle and thorough analysis of anthropocentrism I have encountered; and his critical reworking of the relationship between animals and philosophy allows for an extraordinarily rich understanding of more-than-human subjectivities." -Matthew Calarco, California State University, Fullerton, "Tom Tyler's reinvention of the bestiary is a remarkable achievement, and Tyler emerges as an engaging storyteller. The book's teeming pages are full of improbable pleasures, pictorial and philosophical. Presented with modesty and wit, the result is an audacious account of what it is not to be human. This is a beautifully written book of exceptional imaginative range and it amounts to nothing less than a poetics of the posthuman." -Steve Baker, author of The Postmodern Animal
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
128
Table Of Content
Contents Acknowledgments Prelude 1. VALLATUS INDICIBUS ATQUE SICARIIS Surrounded by Informers and Assassins Like Water in Water Into Your Hand They Are Delivered Deciphering Deciphering Prickly Porcupines and Docile Dogs An ABC of Animals If a Lion Had Hands Quia Ego Nominor Leo Taking Animals in Hand 2. RIDETO MULTUM ET DIGITUM PORRIGITO MEDIUM Laugh Loudly and Flip Them the Bird Two Hands Are Better Than One The Truth about Mice and Ducks The Philosopher and the Gnat The Birds and the Bees The Back of a Tiger 3. MEDICO TESTICULI ARIETINI On the Ring Finger a Ram's Testicles The Digestive System of the Mind An Unknown Something Praying to the Aliens Nothing to Phone Home About From Noumena to Nebula Those Who Like to Think So One Ring to Rule Them All 4. DIGITO MINIMO MUNDUM UNIVERSUM EXCITES With Your Little Finger You Would Awaken the Whole World The Eyes Have It A Tale of Three Fish Handing On and Gathering In Bird Brains Getting Stuck In 5. MANUS PARVA, MAIORI ADIUTRIX, POLLEX The Thumb Is a Little Hand, Assistant to the Greater To We or Not to We If I Had a Hammer The Rule of Thumb Four Hands Good, Two Hands Bad Report to an Academy Coda Notes Bibliography Publication History and Permissions Index
Synopsis
The Greek philosopher Protagoras, in the opening words of his lost book Truth , famously asserted, "Man is the measure of all things." This contention--that humanity cannot know the world except by means of human aptitudes and abilities--has endured through the centuries in the work of diverse writers. In this bold and creative new investigation into the philosophical and intellectual parameters of the question of the animal, Tom Tyler explores a curious fact: in arguing or assuming that knowledge is characteristically human, thinkers have time and again employed animals as examples, metaphors, and fables. From Heidegger's lizard and Popper's bees to Saussure's ox and Freud's wolves, Tyler points out, "we find a multitude of brutes and beasts crowding into the texts to which they are supposedly unwelcome." Inspired by the medieval bestiaries, Tyler's book features an assortment of "wild animals" ( ferae )--both real and imaginary--who appear in the works of philosophy as mere ciferae , or ciphers; each is there deployed as a placeholder, of no importance or worth in their own right. Examining the work of such figures as Bataille, Moore, Nietzsche, Kant, Whorf, Darwin, and Derrida, among others, Tyler identifies four ways in which these animals have been used and abused: as interchangeable ciphers; as instances of generalized animality; as anthropomorphic caricatures; and as repetitive stereotypes. Looking closer, however, he finds that these unruly beasts persistently and mischievously question the humanist assumptions of their would-be employers. Tyler ultimately challenges claims of human distinctiveness and superiority, which are so often represented by the supposedly unique and perfect human hand. Contrary to these claims, he contends that the hand is, in fact, a primitive organ, and one shared by many different creatures, thereby undercutting one of the foundations of anthropocentricism and opening up the possibility of nonhuman, or more-than-human, knowledge.
LC Classification Number
BD161.T95 2012
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