Knowing Animals
Biographical note
Laurence Simmons teaches at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of a book on Freud in Italy and one on contemporary New Zealand photography and painting. He has also co-edited three volumes of essays in critical theory on Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Zizek.
Philip Armstrong teaches at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of two books on Shakespeare, and various articles on literary representations of animals. His next book is What Animals Mean (Routledge, 2007).
Philip Armstrong teaches at the University of Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand. He is the author of two books on Shakespeare, and various articles on literary representations of animals. His next book is What Animals Mean (Routledge, 2007).
Readership
Those interested in human-animal relations--especially topics such as pet keeping, farming, environmentalism, animal rights and welfare--and in continental philosophy, literature, cinema, the visual arts and cultural studies.
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