Animal Acts : Configuring the Human in Western History (Paperback)

Introduction 1. Human Beasts and Bestial Humans in the Middle Ages 2. The Philosophical Beast: On Boccaccio’s Tale of Cimone 3. Pantagruel-Animal 4. "When the Beasts Spoke": Animal Speech and Classical Reason in Descartes and La Fontaine 5. Revolutionary Monsters 6. Audubon’s Ornithological Biography and the Question of "Other Minds" 7. What Is "Human"? Metaphysics and Zoontology in Flaubert and Kafka 8. Taming the Beast: Animality in Wedekind and Nietzsche, 9. On Being 'The Last Kantian in Nazi Germany": Dwelling with Animals after Levinas 10. Animal Speech, Active Verbs, and Material Being in E. B. White 11. "Surely, God, These Are My Kin": The Dynamics of Identity and Advocacy in the Life and Works of Dian Fossey 12. Humanimals and Anihumans in Gary Larson's Gallery of the Absurd