with Éric Baratay, Nathalie Blanc, Florence Burgat, Isabelle Delannoy, Vicianne Despret, Carla Freccero, Marcela Iacub, Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer, Dominique Lestel, Marie-Hélène Parizeau, Walter Putnam, Peter Sahlins, Anne Simon
Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw on anthropology, ethology, geography, history, legal studies, phenomenology, and philosophy to interrogate human-animal relationships. They explore the many ways in which animals signify in French history, society, and intellectual history, illustrating the exciting new perspectives being developed about the animal question in the French-speaking world today. Built on the strength and diversity of these contributions, French Thinking about Animals demonstrates the interdisciplinary and internationalism that are needed if we hope to transform the interactions of humans and nonhuman animals in contemporary society.
Louisa Mackenzie is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Stephanie Posthumus is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University in Montreal.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante : Anne Simon (28 mars 2015). French Thinking about Animals | 2015. Animots. Consulté le 14 mars 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/b6b0
Créé en 2011, le carnet Animots, au croisement des Sciences humaines et des Sciences du vivant, souhaite fédérer la recherche en zoopoétique et proposer une veille sur l’actualité littéraire, artistique et scientifique sur l’animalité et les interactions entre les vivants et le monde. Dirigé par Anne Simon, le programme Animots a été subventionné par l’ANR entre 2010 et 2014, qui l’a alors sélectionné comme projet-phare en Sciences humaines et sociales. Son carnet est désormais soutenu par l’unité République des savoirs (CNRS/ENS/Collège de France – PSL).
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Created in 2011, Animots is a research notebook at the crossroads of the Humanities and the Life Sciences. It aims to bring together research in zoopoetics and to provide ongoing coverage of literary, artistic, and scientific developments relating to animality and to interactions between living beings and the world. Directed by Anne Simon, the Animots programme was funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) from 2010 to 2014, and was selected as a flagship project in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The notebook is now supported by the research unit République des savoirs (Centre national de la recherche scientifique / École normale supérieure / Collège de France – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres).
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Créé en 2011, le carnet Animots, au croisement des Sciences humaines et des Sciences du vivant, souhaite fédérer la recherche en zoopoétique et proposer une veille sur l’actualité littéraire, artistique et scientifique sur l’animalité et les interactions entre les vivants et le monde. Dirigé par Anne Simon, le programme Animots a été subventionné par l’ANR entre 2010 et 2014, qui l’a alors sélectionné comme projet-phare en Sciences humaines et sociales. Son carnet est désormais soutenu par l’unité République des savoirs (CNRS/ENS/Collège de France – PSL).
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Created in 2011, Animots is a research notebook at the crossroads of the Humanities and the Life Sciences. It aims to bring together research in zoopoetics and to provide ongoing coverage of literary, artistic, and scientific developments relating to animality and to interactions between living beings and the world. Directed by Anne Simon, the Animots programme was funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) from 2010 to 2014, and was selected as a flagship project in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The notebook is now supported by the research unit République des savoirs (Centre national de la recherche scientifique / École normale supérieure / Collège de France – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres).
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