Melancholia's Dog Reflections on Our Animal Kinship

Name: Melancholia's Dog Reflections on Our Animal Kinship
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ISBN: 9780226465784

ISBN-10: 0226465780

ISBN-13: 9780226465784

Edition: 2006

Authors: Alice A. Kuzniar

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Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal. But cross-species communication is never easy. Dog love can be a precious but melancholy thing. An attempt to understand human attachment to the canis familiaris in terms of reciprocity and empathy, Melancholia’s Dog tackles such difficult concepts as intimacy and kinship with dogs, the shame associated with identification with their suffering, and the reasons for the profound mourning over their deaths. In addition to philosophy and…

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 216
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.95" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Muteness



Shame



Intimacy



Mourning


Notes


Works Cited


Index