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Human and animal subjectivity converge in a historically unprecedented way within modernism, as evolutionary theory, imperialism, antirationalism, and psychoanalysis all grapple with the place of the human in relation to the animal. Drawing on the thought of Jacques Derrida and Georges Bataille, Carrie Rohman outlines the complex philosophical and ethical stakes involved in theorizing the animal in humanism, including the difficulty in determining an ontological place for the animal, the question of animal consciousness and language, and the paradoxical status of the human as both a primate body and a "human" mind abstracting itself from the physical and material world. Rohman then turns to the work of Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, H. G. Wells, and Djuna Barnes, authors who were deeply invested in the relationship between animality and identity. __The Island of Dr. Moreau__ embodies a Darwinian nightmare of the evolutionary continuum; __The Croquet Player__ thematizes the dialectic between evolutionary theory and psychoanalysis; and __Women in Love__, __St. Mawr__, and __Nightwood__ all refuse to project animality onto others, inverting the traditional humanist position by valuing

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Author

Darwin, Charles; Freud, Sigmund; Rohman, Carrie; Darwin, Charles; Freud, Sigmund

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231145077

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Science

Rating

4.14 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14