TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peterson,Christopher
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Monkey Trouble : : The Scandal of Posthumanism / 
SN  - 9780823277827
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - fast
KW  - Human beings
KW  - Humanism
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Nature and civilization
KW  - Philosophical anthropology
KW  - humanism
KW  - aat
KW  - Homo sapiens (species)
KW  - philosophical anthropology
KW  - Nature et civilisation
KW  - Relations homme-animal
KW  - Humanisme
KW  - Homme
KW  - Anthropologie philosophique
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - The scandal of the human: immanent transcendency and the question of animal language -- Sovereign silence: the desire for answering speech -- The gravity of melancholia: a critique of speculative realism -- Listing toward cosmocracy: the limits of hospitality; Open Access
N2  - "According to scholars of the nonhuman turn, the scandal of theory lies in its failure to decenter the human. The real scandal, however, is that we keep trying. The human has become a conspicuous blind spot for many theorists seeking to extend hospitality to animals, plants, and even insentient things. The displacement of the human is essential and urgent, yet given the humanist presumption that animals lack a number of allegedly unique human capacities, such as language, reason, and awareness of mortality, we ought to remain cautious about laying claim to any power to eradicate anthropocentrism altogether. Such a power risks becoming yet another self-accredited capacity thanks to which the human reaffirms its sovereignty through its supposed erasure. Monkey Trouble argues that the turn toward immanence in contemporary posthumanism promotes a cosmocracy that absolves one from engaging in those discriminatory decisions that condition hospitality as such. Engaging with recent theoretical developments in speculative realism and object-oriented ontology, as well as ape and parrot language studies, the book offers close readings of literary works by J.M. Coetzee, Charles Chesnutt, and Walt Whitman and films by Alfonso Cuarón and Lars von Trier. Anthropocentrism, Peterson argues, cannot be displaced through a logic of reversal that elevates immanence above transcendence, horizontality over verticality. This decentering must cultivate instead a human/nonhuman relationality that affirms the immanent transcendency spawned by our phantasmatic humanness."--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/55730/
ER  -