Ryan Hediger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3433497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ryan Hediger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Hediger |
| SIGNATURE | HEDIGER R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Animals and War
Timothy Treadwell's Grizzly Love as Freak Show
When in undergraduate courses I have screened Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog's compelling film about Timothy Treadwell, many student responses tend to resemble those common in the culture at large. They believe Treadwell was insane. Several of the students, like commentators about Treadwell on the Internet and elsewhere, further suggest that he deserved to die for engaging in so foolhardy an undertaking as living with grizzly bears.1 This reception o…
Index
Crossing Over
author suggests that the idea of agency itself suffers from being too categorically dependent; it is often too strictly connected to inaccurate, merely conventional definitions of humanity, and to the cluster of associated in-category attributes. approach foregrounds the self's weakness and mortality, thereby complicating the category human and unsettling notions of selfhood, intelligence, action, language, and so on, which cannot finally be sepa…
Approaching The Agency Of Other Animals
This chapter provides a brief overview of the book Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration and its chapters. It outlines a theory of agency, moves among a number of closely related terms-free will, ability, rationality, mind, morality, subjectivity-and we could add to this list in an indefinitely long fashion. It highlights how animals live in the world. Working out exactly what degree or kind of difference lies between human and non…
Preliminary Material
Animals and Agency
Animals and Agency
While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the primary focus of inquiry. Section I presents studies of actual animals demonstrating agency; Section II moves agency into new terrain while considering key representations of animal agency in literature; Section III analyzes animals as mediators and as conveyances of human-to-human communicat…
Animals and Agency
While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the primary focus of inquiry. Section I presents studies of actual animals demonstrating agency; Section II moves agency into new terrain while considering key representations of animal agency in literature; Section III analyzes animals as mediators and as conveyances of human-to-human communicat…
Timothy Treadwell's Grizzly Love as Freak Show
When in undergraduate courses I have screened Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog's compelling film about Timothy Treadwell, many student responses tend to resemble those common in the culture at large. They believe Treadwell was insane. Several of the students, like commentators about Treadwell on the Internet and elsewhere, further suggest that he deserved to die for engaging in so foolhardy an undertaking as living with grizzly bears.1 This reception o…
Index
Crossing Over
author suggests that the idea of agency itself suffers from being too categorically dependent; it is often too strictly connected to inaccurate, merely conventional definitions of humanity, and to the cluster of associated in-category attributes. approach foregrounds the self's weakness and mortality, thereby complicating the category human and unsettling notions of selfhood, intelligence, action, language, and so on, which cannot finally be sepa…
Approaching The Agency Of Other Animals
This chapter provides a brief overview of the book Animals and Agency: An Interdisciplinary Exploration and its chapters. It outlines a theory of agency, moves among a number of closely related terms-free will, ability, rationality, mind, morality, subjectivity-and we could add to this list in an indefinitely long fashion. It highlights how animals live in the world. Working out exactly what degree or kind of difference lies between human and non…
Preliminary Material
Animals and Agency
Animals and Agency
While many scholars who write about animals deal with animal agency in some way, this volume is the first to position the question of nonhuman agency as the primary focus of inquiry. Section I presents studies of actual animals demonstrating agency; Section II moves agency into new terrain while considering key representations of animal agency in literature; Section III analyzes animals as mediators and as conveyances of human-to-human communicat…
Animals and War
Timothy Treadwell's Grizzly Love as Freak Show
When in undergraduate courses I have screened Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog's compelling film about Timothy Treadwell, many student responses tend to resemble those common in the culture at large. They believe Treadwell was insane. Several of the students, like commentators about Treadwell on the Internet and elsewhere, further suggest that he deserved to die for engaging in so foolhardy an undertaking as living with grizzly bears.1 This reception o…
Sociology (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Animal welfare (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Agency (philosophy (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Focus (optics (3 works)