Unhuman Culture.
Title:
Unhuman Culture.
Author:
Cottom, Daniel.
ISBN:
9780812201697
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (210 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: To Love to Hate -- 1 Crowning Presumption -- 2 I Think -- Therefore, I Am Heathcliff -- 3 Immemorial -- 4 The Injustice of Velázquez -- 5 The Illusion of a Future -- 6 The Akedah on Blanket Hill -- 7 What Is It Like to Be an Artwork? -- Conclusion: The Necessity of Misanthropy -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Through a wide-ranging study of literature, art, and philosophy, Daniel Cottom explains why ours is an unhuman culture and how this culture still gives us reason for hope.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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