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Book SynopsisFoucault and Animals is the first collection of its kind to explore the relevance of Michel Foucault’s thought for the question of the animal. Chrulew and Wadiwel bring together essays from emerging and established scholars that illuminate the place of animals and animality within Foucault’s texts, and open up his highly influential range of concepts and methods to different domains of human-animal relations including experimentation, training, zoological gardens, pet-keeping, agriculture, and consumption. Touching on themes such as madness and discourse, power and biopolitics, government and ethics, and sexuality and friendship, the volume takes the fields of Foucault studies and human-animal studies into promising new directions.
Table of ContentsForeword List of Contributors Editor’s Introduction: Foucault and Animals, Matthew Chrulew and Dinesh Wadiwel Part One: Discourse and Madness 1. Terminal Truths: Foucault’s Animals and the Mask of the Beast, Joseph Pugliese 2. Chinese Dogs and French Scapegoats: An Essay in Zoonomastics, Claire Huot 3. Violence and Animality: An Investigation of Absolute Freedom in Foucault’s History of Madness, Leonard Lawlor 4. The Order of Things: The Human Sciences are the Event of Animality, Saïd Chebili. (Translated by Matthew Chrulew and Jeffrey Bussolini) Part Two: Power and Discipline 5. “Taming the wild profusion of existing things”: A Study of Foucault, Power, and Human/Animal Relationships, Clare Palmer 6. Dressage: Training the Equine Body , Natalie Corinne Hansen 7. Foucault’s Menagerie: Cock Fighting, Bear Baiting, and the Genealogy of Human-Animal Power, Alex Mackintosh Part Three: Science and Biopolitics 8. The Birth of the Laboratory Animal: Biopolitics, Animal Experimentation, and Animal Wellbeing, Robert G. W. Kirk 9. Animals as Biopolitical Subjects, Matthew Chrulew 10. Biopower, Heterogeneous Biosocial Collectivities and Domestic Livestock Breeding, Lewis Holloway and Carol Morris Part Four: Government and Ethics 11. Apum Ordines: Of Bees and Government, Craig McFarlane 12. Animal Friendship as a Way of Life: Sexuality, Petting and Interspecies Companionship, Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel 13. Foucault and the Ethics of Eating, Chloë Taylor Afterword, Paul Patton
