Name: Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame
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Author: Cary Wolfe

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Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University Of Chicago Press

Author

Cary Wolfe

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

152

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0226922413

ISBN13

9780226922416

Synopsis "Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame "

Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status of nonhuman animals and the shared plight of humans and animals under biopolitics. Wolfe argues that the human-animal distinction must be supplemented with the central distinction of biopolitics: the difference between those animals that are members of a community and those that are deemed killable but not murderable. From this understanding, we can begin to make sense of the fact that this distinction prevails within both the human and animal domains and address such difficult issues as why we afford some animals unprecedented levels of care and recognition while subjecting others to unparalleled forms of brutality and exploitation. Engaging with many major figures in biopolitical thought—from Heidegger, Arendt, and Foucault to Agamben, Esposito, and Derrida—Wolfe explores how biopolitics can help us understand both the ethical and political dimensions of the current questions surrounding the rights of animals.

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