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Explores the political and poetic understanding of the deconstruction of the ‘animal question’GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748683123','ISBN:9780748683130','ISBN:9780748683147']);How does deconstruction understand relations between humans and other animals? This book reveals that across Jacques Derrida’s work as a whole, as well as that of Hélène Cixous and Nicholas Royle, deconstruction has always addressed questions about animality. In this collection, for example, Cixous asks after human intervention between the death of a wild bird and the predation of a domestic cat. Kelly Oliver pursues Derrida’s analysis of what or whose gaze is at stake when a King oversees the autopsy of an elephant. Royle examines in what sense the vulnerable impressions made by the tunnelling of a mole might be thought of as the traces of a text. Re-examining how we relate to other animals has far-reaching implications for how we think of ourselves. Throughout this collection authors bring to attention the politics and the poetics of a less anthropocentric world. Even when this world is grasped through very writerly fields such as philosophy, literature and autobiography, The Animal Question in Deconstruction demonstrates that we are always marked by traces of other animals.Key FeaturesExpands the current debate on the ‘animal question’ through new essays by established authors, such as Peggy Kamuf, Sarah Wood and Judith Still, that critically examine a wide range of texts by Derrida, Cixous and RoyleIncludes the first English translation of ‘Un Réfugié’ by Hélène Cixous, showing how her approach to relations between humans and other animals is similar to but distinct from that of DerridaRepublishes Nicholas Royle’s ground-breaking essay ‘Mole’"

LITERARY CRITICISM --- European / General --- Animals (Philosophy) --- Deconstruction --- Philosophy & Religion --- Philosophy --- Criticism --- Semiotics and literature

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Intertextuality --- Discourse analysis --- Semiotics and literature --- Intertextualité --- Analyse du discours --- Sémiotique et littérature --- Intertextualite --- Semiotique et litterature --- Intertextualité --- Sémiotique et littérature --- Discourse analysis.

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This monograph argues that the structuralist movement in linguistics was curtailed prematurely, before its contribution to cognitive science could be fully realized. Building upon Roman Jakobson's pioneering work on the nature of the linguistic sign, a new and detailed appreciation of the role of sign relations in the ultimate structuring of consciousness is presented, proving that the structural approach has as much to contribute today as any current cognitive theory. This study takes the view that the structure which linguistic signs themselves evince should be treated as an organic property of mind in its own right, as the device by which the ultimate differences in meaning in the human cognitive sphere are realized. Adherence to this principle assumes not only that the linguistic sign must be fundamentally monosemic, but also that the level of abstraction at which the relations between signs function must lie beyond the logical or rational level where polysemy is the rule. The study demonstrates that while the conceptual relations or categories uncovered at such a higher-order level of consciousness are of necessity highly abstract and hidden from normal awareness, they are nevertheless neither ineffable nor devoid of content. Rather, the categories identified and defined in this study are shown to have verifiable correlates at the supra-rational level where transpersonal rather than ego-oriented psychology operates, the level that Jung termed the collective unconscious. It is here that we find corresponding properties in reports from altered states of consciousness, in the structure of myths worldwide, as well as in studies of the image-making capacity of the human mind. Ultimately, when the structure of actual linguistic signs is treated as an ordered set of conceptual relations, one necessarily arrives at the conclusion that the sign relations of different languages are anything but Whorfian, but are all pointing to the same universal set of conceptual properties. This set of properties is then shown to be able to account for the relations between signs in all areas of linguistic structure, from the grammatical to the lexical and the syntactic. The monograph goes on to provide a detailed account of the process of making reference, of how speakers are able to contextualize the truly abstract conceptual relations inherent in the structure of signs in their language, to produce a potentially infinite variety of polysemous meanings in actual speech situations at whatever level of concreteness they choose; and how the feedback from such acts of communication determines the evolutionary trajectory of a system of signs conceived as a living organism, specifically as a neuronal structure inherent in the human brain operating as a fundamentally probabilistic or stochastic system.

Psycholinguistics --- Structural linguistics --- Semiotics --- Linguistique structurale --- Sémiotique --- Semiotics and literature --- Translating and interpreting --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Literature --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- Literature and semiotics --- Translating --- Structuralism. --- Structure (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Whole and parts (Philosophy) --- Form (Philosophy) --- Poststructuralism --- Cognitive Science. --- Sign Theory.

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This collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear Criticism perpetually re-surfaces in theoretical circles. Given the recent events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, the ripple of anti-nuclear sentiment the event created, as well as the discursive maneuvers that took place in the aftermath, we might pause to reflect upon Nuclear Criticism and its place in contemporary scholarship (and society at-large)...

Nuclear warfare and literature. --- Nuclear warfare --- Nuclear energy --- Nuclear power plants --- Atomic energy --- Atomic power --- Energy, Atomic --- Energy, Nuclear --- Nuclear power --- Power, Atomic --- Power, Nuclear --- Force and energy --- Nuclear physics --- Power resources --- Nuclear engineering --- Nuclear facilities --- Atomic power plants --- Nuclear power stations --- Power-plants --- Antinuclear movement --- Atomic warfare and society --- Atomic warfare and literature --- Literature and nuclear warfare --- Literature --- Social aspects. --- Public opinion. --- Decision making. --- Nuclear warfare and literature --- Nuclear warfare in literature --- Criticism --- Deconstruction --- Semiotics and literature --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Anti-nuclear movement --- Antinuclear protest movement --- Nuclear freeze movement --- Protest movement, Antinuclear --- Social movements --- Nuclear disarmament --- Public opinion --- Technique --- Evaluation --- E-books