Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies

The book explores the interdisciplinary study of animals in the humanities, covering topics such as ethics, economics, and relations. It features original research and opens up new methods, alignments, directions, and challenges for the future of animal studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 576 pages
Publication date: 10 December 2019
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

The study of animals in the humanities offers a cross-disciplinary perspective, critically examining current topics and disciplines that are influenced, enriched, or challenged by the growing scholarship on Animal Studies. World-leading scholars from various fields, including Literature, Philosophy, Art, Biosemiotics, and Geography, set the agenda for Animal Studies today. This volume presents 35 newly commissioned essays that demonstrate how we perceive other animals as integral to fields as diverse as ethics, economics, and relationships. The chapters focus on specific topics, such as Abjection, Voice, Affection, and Technology, highlighting the centrality of the animal question to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines. The book offers original research and introduces new methods, alignments, directions, and challenges for the future of Animal Studies. It uniquely embeds the animal question as central to contemporary concerns across a wide range of disciplines, bringing discourses from the sciences into dialogue with the arts and humanities. The Afterword by Cary Wolfe (Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English, Rice University) provides further insights into the field.

Weight: 956g
Dimension: 250 x 186 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474458528