Essays about: "human-animal divide"

Found 4 essays containing the words human-animal divide.

1. 1. Chimeric Mimicry : Reflection and Animality in Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Nature

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Filosofi

   Author : Oscar Amcoff; [2023]
   Keywords : animal-studies; human-animal relation; merleau-ponty; merleau-ponty nature; chimera; chimerical; animal reflection; reflection of nature; human-animal divide; carnologocentrism; animal philosophy; animal phenomenology; phenomenology of nature; merleau-ponty and the animal; ineinander; animal embodiment;

   Abstract : In this paper, I attempt to understand how Merleau-Ponty views the relation between nature and reflection, as well as the meaning behind the terms “human” and “animal” and the relations between them. I approach this by outlining the transition from Merleau-Ponty’s early philosophy (SB, PP) to his late philosophy (N, VI). READ MORE

3. 2. The Animal in the Mirror : Zoomorphism and Anthropomorphism in Life of Pi

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Miryam Bernadette Danielsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Life of Pi; anthropomorphism; zoomorphism; anthropophagy; cannibalism; ecocriticism; animal studies; human-animal dualism; Yann Martel; cartesian dualism; animal philosophy;

   Abstract : This essay explores the application of zoomorphism and anthropomorphism in Yann Martel’s novel Life of Pi. The novel, rather than being a mere shipwreck-narrative or a miraculous tale with religious overtones, is also a story about the complicated and perhaps inevitably divided relationship between humans and animals. READ MORE

4. 3. Intersectional oppression across species boundaries: Swedish dairy production as force of oppressive ideology and practice

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Social Studies of Gender

   Author : Jana Canavan; [2016]
   Keywords : intersectionality of oppression; speciesism; animal welfarism; Swedish dairy farming; critical animal studies; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study demonstrates that the anthropocentric human-animal divide perpetuates violent ideologies and practices by emphasising the intersectionality of oppression across species boundaries. Taking the practice of Swedish dairy farming and inherent ideologies as a case of such intersectional oppression, the Othering of bovines and their treatment as means of production is problematised. READ MORE

5. 4. With or Without the "Divine Spark": Animalised Humans and the Human-Animal Divide in Charles Dickens's Novels

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Katarina Graah-Hagelbäck; [2014]
   Keywords : animalisation; continuum; Darwin; Dickens; ecocriticism; hierarchy; human-animal divide;

   Abstract : Animals appear in many guises in Charles Dickens’s novels, as wild animals, domestic animals, animals used in the service of humans, and, not least, as images and symbols. Based on a close reading of all of Dickens’s major novels, this thesis centres on the symbolic use of (both metaphorical and actual) animals in the depiction of human characters, the chief aim being to explore a phenomenon that Dickens frequently resorts to, namely, the animalisation of human characters. READ MORE