عنوان

"John Bergers "Why Look at Animals?":

شماره

LA129871

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

"John Bergers "Why Look at Animals?":

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

A Close Reading"

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jonathan Burt

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

"This article is a close reading of John Berger's highly influential essay "Why look at animals?" and its implications for thinking about animals in modernity. Berger analyses the alienation of human and animal as a consequence of nineteenth-century capitalism, and contrasts it with an earlier period when human-animal relations were more integrated. Despite the power and simplicity of Berger's argument, which has been taken up uncritically by a number of writers, both his historical analysis and his conception of human-animal relations in modernity are highly problematic and need substantial revision. Furthermore, the consequences of his thesis paradoxically reinforce the very processes he is criticising. Inadequate notions of the place of animals in public visual culture, and a more general bias against visual imagery in favour of text-based notions of the animal, create obstacles to theorising human-animal relations and welfare related issues in the contemporary world. The article suggests other perspectives for understanding what it means to look at animals. This article is a close reading of John Berger's highly influential essay "Why look at animals?" and its implications for thinking about animals in modernity. Berger analyses the alienation of human and animal as a consequence of nineteenth-century capitalism, and contrasts it with an earlier period when human-animal relations were more integrated. Despite the power and simplicity of Berger's argument, which has been taken up uncritically by a number of writers, both his historical analysis and his conception of human-animal relations in modernity are highly problematic and need substantial revision. Furthermore, the consequences of his thesis paradoxically reinforce the very processes he is criticising. Inadequate notions of the place of animals in public visual culture, and a more general bias against visual imagery in favour of text-based notions of the animal, create obstacles to theorising human-animal relations and welfare related issues in the contemporary world. The article suggests other perspectives for understanding what it means to look at animals."

تاريخ نشر

2005

توصيف ظاهري

203-218

عنوان

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

شماره جلد

9/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5357

اصطلاح موضوعی

ANIMALS

اصطلاح موضوعی

BERGER

اصطلاح موضوعی

KILLING

اصطلاح موضوعی

VISUAL CULTURE

اصطلاح موضوعی

ZOOS

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jonathan Burt

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/1568535054615321

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y