Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Lienemann Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu A foundational exploration of the figure of the animal in modern culture ELECTRIC ANIMAL: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife Akira Mizuta Lippit University of Minnesota Press | 296 pages | 2008 ISBN 978-0-8166-3486-6 | paperback | $25.00 NOW IN PAPER Akira Mizuta Lippit shows us the animal as a crucial figure in the definition of modernity‹essential to developments in the natural sciences and technology, radical transformations in modern philosophy and literature, and the advent of psychoanalysis and the cinema. "In a dazzling interdisciplinary romp through Aristotle, Heidegger, Darwin, Freud, and up to the present with a discussion of Kafka, photography, and cinema, Lippit is keenly aware of how, throughout history, people have condescended toward animals‹the flip side of valuing humanity above all else. Lippit deconstructs the masking of animal consciousness in our intellectual traditions." ‹Chronicle of Higher Education "This book is, among other things, an extraordinarily promising preface to a, perhaps the, theory of cinema." ‹MLN For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book¹s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/L/lippit_electric.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]