Cary Wolfe
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American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cary Wolfe is an American academic. He teaches English at Rice University. He has written on topics from American poetry to bioethics. He has been a voice in debates on animal studies and advocates a version of the posthumanist position. He is series editor for Minnesota Press's Posthumanities Series. He was born and grew up in North Carolina.
Cary Wolfe's Published Works
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Published Works
- What Is Posthumanism (2009) (507)
- Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory (2003) (445)
- Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (2012) (289)
- Zoontologies: The Question Of The Animal (2003) (266)
- Human, All Too Human: “Animal Studies” and the Humanities (2009) (147)
- Philosophy and Animal Life (2008) (85)
- Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity (2000) (67)
- Critical Environments: Postmodern Theory and the Pragmatics of the “Outside” (1998) (67)
- On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings (2009) (64)
- In Search of Post-Humanist Theory: The Second-Order Cybernetics of Maturana and Varela (1995) (37)
- Flesh and Finitude: Thinking Animals in (Post)Humanist Philosophy (2008) (32)
- Fathers, Lovers, and Friend Killers: Rearticulating Gender and Race via Species in Hemingway (2002) (28)
- Learning from Temple Grandin, or, Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes after the Subject (2008) (26)
- In The Shadow of Wittgenstein's Lion (2002) (24)
- Speciesism, Identity Politics, and Ecocriticism: A Conversation with Humanists and Posthumanists (2011) (20)
- Subject to Sacrifice: Ideology, Psychoanalysis, and the Discourse of Species in Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs (1995) (19)
- Before the Law: Animals in a Biopolitical Context (2010) (18)
- Moving forward, kicking back: The animal turn (2011) (16)
- The Other Emerson (2010) (15)
- Theory of a Different Order: A Conversation with Katherine Hayles and Niklas Luhmann (1995) (15)
- Echographies from my life in the bush of ghosts (2008) (14)
- Ezra Pound and the Politics of Patronage (1991) (14)
- From Dead Meat to Glow in the Dark Bunnies Seeing “the Animal Question” in Contemporary Art (2006) (10)
- Nature as Critical Concept: Kenneth Burke, the Frankfurt School, and "Metabiology" (1991) (9)
- Ecological Poetics; or, Wallace Stevens’s Birds (2020) (9)
- Making Contingency Safe for Liberalism: The Pragmatics of Epistemology in Rorty and Luhmann (1994) (9)
- Introduction: The Politics of Systems and Environments (1995) (8)
- Lose the Building: Systems Theory, Architecture, and Diller+Scofidio's Blur (2006) (7)
- The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson: Critiques of Capitalist (Literary) Production (1993) (7)
- Response to Christopher Peterson, “The Posthumanism to Come” (2011) (6)
- Old orders for new: ecology, animal rights, and the poverty of humanism (1998) (6)
- Meaning as Event-Machine, or Systems Theory and “The Reconstruction of Deconstruction”: Derrida and Luhmann (2009) (6)
- Alone with America: Cavell, Emerson, and the Politics of Individualism (1994) (6)
- The Idea of Observation at Key West, or, Systems Theory, Poetry, and Form Beyond Formalism (2008) (4)
- (Auto)immunity, Social Theory, and the ‘Political’ (2017) (4)
- WHAT “THE ANIMAL” CAN TEACH “THE ANTHROPOCENE” (2020) (4)
- Messy Eating (2019) (3)
- Symbol Plural: The Later Long Poems of A. R. Ammons (1989) (3)
- Second Finitude, or the Technics of Address: A Response (2014) (3)
- Landscape and Inscription (2016) (2)
- Preceptor de Jour? Solving the Problem of Juggling Preceptors (2004) (2)
- Faux Post-Humanism, or, Animal Rights, Neocolonialism, and Michael Crichton's Congo (2014) (2)
- Wallace Stevens’s Birds, or, Derrida and Ecological Poetics (2018) (2)
- The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson: A Politics of Difference (1994) (2)
- Rethinking Commitment: Ontology, Genre, and Sartre's Mallarme@@@Mallarme, or the Poet of Nothingness (1991) (2)
- ‘Theory,’ the Humanities, and the Sciences: Disciplinary and Institutional Settings (2017) (1)
- Humane Advocacy and the Humanities (2011) (1)
- 2. Humane Advocacy and the Humanities The Very Idea (2011) (1)
- The Hamartia of Light and Shadow: Susan Sontag in the Digital Age (2006) (1)
- Humans and (Other) Animals in a Biopolitical Frame (2017) (1)
- (Im)mobilities (2014) (1)
- Ecological Poetics (2021) (1)
- Old Orders for New (2002) (1)
- Humanist and Posthumanist Antispeciesism (2009) (1)
- Cognitive Science, Deconstruction, and (Post)Humanist (Non)Humans (2007) (1)
- Messy Eating: Conversations on Animals as Food (2019) (1)
- 6. Of Ecology, Immunity, and Islands: The Lost Maples of Big Bend (2017) (1)
- The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson: Economies of Individualism (1994) (0)
- 6 . “Premetaphysical Pluralism”: Dwelling in the Ordinary 138 Coda: Indirections, on the Way (2020) (0)
- Early on in The New Ecological Order, the French philosopher Luc Ferry characterizes the allure and danger of ecology in the postmodern moment. What separates it from various other issues in the intellectual and political field, he writes, is that (2016) (0)
- Speaking Out: Dulling the Democratic Mind (1977) (0)
- Postscript: On “the Living” (2010) (0)
- ONTOGENESIS BEYOND COMPLEXITY (2020) (0)
- The Current State of the “ Question of the Animal ” Zoontologies : The Question of the Animal (2004) (0)
- Fathers, Lovers, and Friend Killers: Rearticulating Gender and Race via Species in Hemingway (2002) (0)
- Ecology/Echography (2022) (0)
- Each Time Unique: The Poetics of Extinction (2018) (0)
- The political theory of Stanley Cavell (2012) (0)
- NEVER AGAIN WOULD BIRDS’ SONG BE THE SAME, OR, ECOPOETICS WHEN “THERE IS NO WORLD” (2018) (0)
- Turning Toward and Away (2019) (0)
- The Biopolitical Drama of Joseph Beuys (2021) (0)
- 1. Poems (and Critics) of Our Climate (2020) (0)
- Neither Beast nor Sovereign (2019) (0)
- Solving the problem of juggling preceptors. (2004) (0)
- The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson: Ideologies of the Organic (1994) (0)
- The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson: “Gynocracy” and “Red Blood”: Pound and the Politics of Feminization (1994) (0)
- The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson: Signs That Bind: Ideology and Form in Pound's Poetics (1994) (0)
- Photoessay: Im(mobilities) (2013) (0)
- 4. “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same” (2020) (0)
- Preface: “An Affair of Places” (2020) (0)
- 3. “There Is No World”: Deconstruction, Theoretical Biology, and the Creative Universe (2020) (0)
- Aficionados and Friend Killers (2002) (0)
- ONTOGENESIS BEYOND COMPLEXITY (2020) (0)
- 5. Scapes and Spheres (2020) (0)
- Beastly Culture (2011) (0)
- The Limits of American Literary Ideology in Pound and Emerson: Acknowledgments (1994) (0)
- In his 2009 PMLA article on the state of animal studies in the humanities, Cary Wolfe argues that animal studies have potential (2013) (0)
- Introduction Ontogenesis Beyond Complexity (2021) (0)
- 14 Wallace Stevens’s Birds, or, Derrida and Ecological Poetics (2020) (0)
- “There Is No World”: (2021) (0)
- 2. “Like Seeing Fallen Brightly Away”: A New Theory for the Emerson/Stevens Genealogy (2020) (0)
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