Exploring Animal Encounters

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This collection of essays offers multifaceted explorations of animal encounters in a range of philosophical, cultural, literary, and historical contexts. Exploring Animal Encounters encourages us to think about the richness and complexity of animal lives and human-animal relations, foregrounding the intricate roles nonhuman creatures play in the always already more-than-human sphere of ethics and politics. In this way, the essays in this volume can be understood as a contribution to alternative imaginings of interspecies coexistence in a time in which the issue of human relations with earth and earth others has come to the fore with unprecedented force and severity. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Some Thoughts on (Animal) Encounter (Dominik Ohrem)....Pages 3-42 Front Matter ....Pages 43-43 The Three Ethologies (Matthew Calarco)....Pages 45-62 Hanging Together in a Touch: Friendship and Mourning in the Melancholic Limits of Man (James R. Goebel)....Pages 63-91 Such Beastly Behavior! Predation, Revenge, and the Question of Ethics (Sarah E. McFarland)....Pages 93-111 Precarious Encounters (Nicole Shukin)....Pages 113-136 Front Matter ....Pages 137-137 The Photographer and the Zoo: A Memoir of Mediated Encounters (Randy Malamud)....Pages 139-151 Front Matter ....Pages 153-153 Bestiality in a Time of Smallpox: Dr. Jenner and the “Modern Chimera” (Rob Boddice)....Pages 155-178 Dissolving into Visibility: Early American Natural History and the Corporeality of Interspecies Encounters (Julie McCown)....Pages 179-208 Deep History, Interspecies Coevolution, and the Eco-imaginary (Louise Westling)....Pages 209-231 Of Primates’ Bodies: Forms of Human-Other Primate Intercorporeality (Amanda Daniela Cortez, Agustín Fuentes)....Pages 233-252 Incorrect and Beautiful Anatomies: Becomings, Immanence, and Transspecies Bodies in the Art of Roberto Fabelo (Christina García)....Pages 253-275 Back Matter ....Pages 277-283