fits least well into the demands of the Anthropocene, seemingly more allied with forms of
anthropocentric thinking to be overcome, or as an art of sequences of human action or attention geared to a definite significant end in some fulfilled or unfulfilled intention" (187).
Thinking Italian Animals provides a substantial contribution to the field of Ecocriticism, Human and Posthuman studies, convincingly challenging and critiquing the
anthropocentric view of human exceptionalism and proving the impact that Animal Studies have had and will continue to have on these disciplines.
To that point, the Imitation Game not only does not establish whether a system is conscious, its line of reasoning is fatally
anthropocentric. Assuming human behavior equates to intelligent behavior excludes both unintelligent human behavior and intelligent nonhuman behavior.
(7) In my opinion, energy medicine echoes the earth jurisprudence ideology of the connectedness of all living things (2) and the moral imperative to stop
anthropocentric resource depletion.
Such Western
anthropocentric and androcentric ways of thinking reached their peak in the 19th century's efforts of European colonization.
(1) Naude's photographic portraits (figures) of domestic animals (mules, AfriCanis (2) dogs, and bulls) are subject to the colonising action of figurative
anthropocentric rhetoric--"animal autobiography" (Derrida 2002: 405) and "animetaphor" (Lippit: 1998: 1112-1113) actions--powerfully realised in the viewer's perception and reception of animal representation.
I despise "democratic ideology" as much as Lee Congdon does: my 2011 The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order was almost exclusively directed against "the immoderate friends of democracy"--those who radicalize it in the name of autonomy, untrammeled consent, and the "
anthropocentric humanism" that Solzhenitsyn so wisely castigates.
However, rather than dichotomously defining the narrative "Big Two-Hearted River" as a story about shell shock and recovery that insists upon the landscape as a metaphor and
anthropocentric mirror, I would like to suggest a different reading of nature in the text.
Primavesi argues the tradition has undermined respect for biodiversity through an
anthropocentric bias and a distorted, imperial view of God.
of Warsaw, Poland) presents an
anthropocentric approach to intercultural and interlingual communication and then examines the arenas of corporate communications and global virtual teams before focusing on the method, data, and results of her empirical study.
Contesting Judith Bryant Wittenberg's claim that Go Down, Moses is "a distinctly
anthropocentric novel" (51), in this article I argue that Faulkner's concentration on the imbrications between human and nonhuman subjectivities in Go Down, Moses provides reason to read the novel as a nonanthropocentric, and possibly even an antianthropocentric, work.
(3) Mirroring the recurring question that structures the book--namely, is philosophy, realism, relativism, or pragmatism necessarily
anthropocentric?--we might then find ourselves asking: Is any discussion of anthropocentrism itself necessarily
anthropocentric?
