Author: Leigh Claire La Berge
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478023880
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory, its colonialist and imperialist ages, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism, and the communist revolutions that opposed it to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions, tigers, wildcats, and “sabo-tabbies,” La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy, and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis, La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of eco-socialism. In this playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary, La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration.
Marx for Cats
Author: Leigh Claire La Berge
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478023880
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory, its colonialist and imperialist ages, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism, and the communist revolutions that opposed it to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions, tigers, wildcats, and “sabo-tabbies,” La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy, and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis, La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of eco-socialism. In this playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary, La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 1478023880
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
At the outset of Marx for Cats, Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique, La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism’s feudal prehistory, its colonialist and imperialist ages, the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism, and the communist revolutions that opposed it to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions, tigers, wildcats, and “sabo-tabbies,” La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy, and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis, La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of eco-socialism. In this playful and generously illustrated radical bestiary, La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies collaboration.
Cats in Medieval Manuscripts
Author: Kathleen Walker-Meikle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712352932
Category : Art, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cats were illustrated in medieval manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages, often in exquisite detail and frequently accompanied by their natural prey, mice. Medieval cats were viewed as treasured pets, as fearsome mousers, as canny characters in fables, as associates of the Devil, and as magical creatures. Featuring an array of fascinating illustrations from the British Library's rich medieval collection, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts includes anecdotes about cats--both real and imaginary--to provide a fascinating picture of the life of the cat and its relationship with humans during the Medieval period. A great gift for all cat-lovers.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780712352932
Category : Art, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Cats were illustrated in medieval manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages, often in exquisite detail and frequently accompanied by their natural prey, mice. Medieval cats were viewed as treasured pets, as fearsome mousers, as canny characters in fables, as associates of the Devil, and as magical creatures. Featuring an array of fascinating illustrations from the British Library's rich medieval collection, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts includes anecdotes about cats--both real and imaginary--to provide a fascinating picture of the life of the cat and its relationship with humans during the Medieval period. A great gift for all cat-lovers.
The Unadulterated Cat
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9780752853697
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us - the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats have ears that look like they've been trimmed with pinking shears; real cats never wear flea collars . . . or appear on Christmas cards . . . or chase anything with a bell in it; real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the table, if they think they can get away with it. Real cats can hear a fridge door opening two rooms away . . .
Publisher: Orion
ISBN: 9780752853697
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us - the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat when we see one. For example: real cats have ears that look like they've been trimmed with pinking shears; real cats never wear flea collars . . . or appear on Christmas cards . . . or chase anything with a bell in it; real cats do eat quiche. And giblets. And butter. And anything else left on the table, if they think they can get away with it. Real cats can hear a fridge door opening two rooms away . . .
The Artful Cat
Author: Mark Bryant
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781561380619
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Featuring 60 full-color paintings by old masters, Western, and Asian artists, this volume captures the essence of the mysterious cat. Quotations or verses enhance the mood of each piece, creating a magnificent, appealing collection for all cat lovers.
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN: 9781561380619
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Featuring 60 full-color paintings by old masters, Western, and Asian artists, this volume captures the essence of the mysterious cat. Quotations or verses enhance the mood of each piece, creating a magnificent, appealing collection for all cat lovers.
Sam and Arry
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780701104924
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780701104924
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Feline Philosophy
Author: John Gray
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374718792
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats—and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world. In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy. Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374718792
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats—and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can learn more from cats--the animal that has most captured our imagination--than from the great thinkers of the world. In Feline Philosophy, the philosopher John Gray discovers in cats a way of living that is unburdened by anxiety and self-consciousness, showing how they embody answers to the big questions of love and attachment, mortality, morality, and the Self: Montaigne's house cat, whose un-examined life may have been the one worth living; Meo, the Vietnam War survivor with an unshakable capacity for "fearless joy"; and Colette's Saha, the feline heroine of her subversive short story "The Cat", a parable about the pitfalls of human jealousy. Exploring the nature of cats, and what we can learn from it, Gray offers a profound, thought-provoking meditation on the follies of human exceptionalism and our fundamentally vulnerable and lonely condition. He charts a path toward a life without illusions and delusions, revealing how we can endure both crisis and transformation, and adapt to a changed scene, as cats have always done.
The Cat, Past and Present
Author: Champfleury
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Cat Call
Author: Kristen J. Sollée
Publisher: Red Wheel
ISBN: 1578636620
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
"An exploration of the untamed crossroads where 'the feline' and 'the feminine' mingle and make magic. From ancient Egypt to early modern Venice to Edo Japan, the witch trials to the Women's March, Catwoman to cat ladies, kitten play to cat conventions, this book tracks the cat's circuitous connection to women and femininity through a magical lens. By combining historical research, pop culture and art analyses, and original interviews, this book uncovers what the 'feral feminine' might mean to witches, sluts, feminists, artists, historians, philosophers, cat ladies, and cat lovers today"--
Publisher: Red Wheel
ISBN: 1578636620
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
"An exploration of the untamed crossroads where 'the feline' and 'the feminine' mingle and make magic. From ancient Egypt to early modern Venice to Edo Japan, the witch trials to the Women's March, Catwoman to cat ladies, kitten play to cat conventions, this book tracks the cat's circuitous connection to women and femininity through a magical lens. By combining historical research, pop culture and art analyses, and original interviews, this book uncovers what the 'feral feminine' might mean to witches, sluts, feminists, artists, historians, philosophers, cat ladies, and cat lovers today"--
A-Z of Cat Diseases and Health Problems
Author: Bradley Viner
Publisher: Howell Books
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This easy to use reference for cat owners is divided into two sections: the first lists signs of diseases and health problems alphabetically, and the second provides details of the signs, causes and treatments of the health problems diagnosed with the help of the first section. This is designed to be used by the reader when examining or observing his cat, and symptoms are carefully indexed to enable reference to associated signs and possible diagnosis. Each section has informative veterinary advice on causes, diagnoses and appropriate treatment. Bradley Viner has been a practicing veterinarian for 20 years and runs a small animal practice with several branches in London. He is a member of the Pet Advisory Committee and Chairman of National Pet Week. He has written three books and hosts his own pet program on the radio in London.
Publisher: Howell Books
ISBN:
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
This easy to use reference for cat owners is divided into two sections: the first lists signs of diseases and health problems alphabetically, and the second provides details of the signs, causes and treatments of the health problems diagnosed with the help of the first section. This is designed to be used by the reader when examining or observing his cat, and symptoms are carefully indexed to enable reference to associated signs and possible diagnosis. Each section has informative veterinary advice on causes, diagnoses and appropriate treatment. Bradley Viner has been a practicing veterinarian for 20 years and runs a small animal practice with several branches in London. He is a member of the Pet Advisory Committee and Chairman of National Pet Week. He has written three books and hosts his own pet program on the radio in London.
When the Cat's Away
Author: Kinky Friedman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571194131
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
A moggy is stolen from a pet show, and when Kinky is persuaded to search for it, he happens across a dead body and a murderer with a strange sense of humour.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571194131
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
A moggy is stolen from a pet show, and when Kinky is persuaded to search for it, he happens across a dead body and a murderer with a strange sense of humour.