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Books by Vinciane Despret
  | | What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?(1st Edition) (Posthumanities) by Vinciane Despret, Brett Buchanan, Bruno Latour Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2016 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-9239-2, ISBN: 0-8166-9239-4 "“You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don’t mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to.” —Bruno Latour, form the ForewordIs it all right to urinate in front of animals? What does it mean when a monkey throws its feces at you? Do apes really know how to ape? Do animals form same-sex rel ..." |
 | | Living as a Bird Format Paperback by Vinciane Despret, Helen Morrison Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2021 by Polity Press, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4727-2, ISBN: 1-5095-4727-4 "By attending carefully to the ways that birds construct their worlds and ornithologists have tried to understand them, Despret sheds fresh light on the activities of both and, at the same time, enables us to become more aware of the ..." |
 | | Our Emotional Makeup by Vinciane Despret, Marjolijn De Jager Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 2004 by Other Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59051-036-0, ISBN: 1-59051-036-4 "Broken hearts, edgy nerves, tightened throats—our emotions grab and take hold of us. But if our emotions appear obvious to us, are they necessarily real or universal? This, of course, is what researchers in physiology and psychology assert, but they will ultimately be disappointed. Vinciane Despret sets out in this book to show how some of our emotions, precisely those we thought were a natural part of our make-up, do not exist unless t ..." |
 | | Fabrice Samyn I Am? by Vinciane Despret, Pascal Rousseau, Wivine De Traux Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Mercatorfonds ISBN-13: 978-0-300-25046-6, ISBN: 0-300-25046-0 "The first major monograph on the work of contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn Contemporary Belgian artist Fabrice Samyn (b. 1981) works in a wide variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and recently choreography. His art engages with history and the passage of time, raising important questions about representation, idolatry, iconoclasm, and ecology in our contemporary world. In the artist’s own w ..." |
 | | Philippe Parreno Fireflies by Phillippe Parreno, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Vinciane Despret, Philippe Parenno Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2018 by Heni Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-912122-11-0, ISBN: 1-912122-11-1 "Generally known for his installations encompassing sculpture, video and soundscapes, Philippe Parreno (born 1964) presents a lesser-known aspect of his oeuvre with these delicate drawings of fireflies, which were created while he was ill with cancer, and were sent to his friends." |
 | | Living as a Bird Format Cloth by Vinciane Despret Hardcover, Published 2021 by Polity Press, Oxford ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4726-5, ISBN: 1-5095-4726-6 |
 | | What Would Animals Say If We Asked Th Cb by Vinciane Despret Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-9237-8, ISBN: 0-8166-9237-8 "Do animals form same-sex relations? Are they the new celebrities of the twenty-first century? This book poses twenty-six such questions that stretch our preconceived ideas about what animals do, what they think about, and what they want." |
 | | The Dance of the Arabian Babbler Birth of an Ethological Theory (A Univocal Book) by Vinciane Despret, Jeffrey Bussolini Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Minnesota Press 2021-07-06 ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-1152-2, ISBN: 1-5179-1152-4 ""Embedding herself in the field alongside ethologists in the Negev desert, Vinciane Despret reflects on scientists' processes of constructing theories within the milieu of the animals they study"--" |
 | | Our Grateful Dead Stories of Those Left Behind by Vinciane Despret 196 Pages, Published 2021 by U Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4529-6593-2, ISBN: 1-4529-6593-5 "... Bruno Latour's on factishes, Magali Molinié's on the fruitful dead, Tobie Nathan's on dreamers, Isabelle Stengers's on healers, Alexa Hagerty's on midwives of the dead, Tanya Luhrmann's on Christians who cultivate internal meanings, ..." |
 | | What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? by Vinciane Despret 288 Pages, Published 2016 by U Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4529-5054-9, ISBN: 1-4529-5054-7 "What relates this book to fables is of course that animals speak, or, more exactly, “would speak,” if only we could ask the ... In Despret's hands, the ability to make animals say something relevant has a way of being infectious: silly questions ..." |
 | | Women Who Make a Fuss The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf by Isabelle Stengers, Vinciane Despret 166 Pages, Published 2015 by U Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-937561-40-6, ISBN: 1-937561-40-2 "Françoise Sironi would speak here of a “dirty trick.” With discreet simplicity, Balibar speaks bitter-sweetly of the necessity in her situation to “cobble together an identity that didn't make me suffer too much, an identity of a “woman” conscious of ..." |
 | | Convoluted Beauty(1st Edition) In the Company of Emily Carr by Lisa Baldissera, Vinciane Despret, Erika Dyck, Erica Dyck, Mendel Art Gallery Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2014 by The Mendel Art Gallery ISBN-13: 978-1-896359-86-1, ISBN: 1-896359-86-8 "Emily Carr (1871-1945) is acclaimed for being one of the first Canadian painters to forge a modernist, post-impressionist style. In 1899 Carr traveled to the United Kingdom precisely to study art, determined to expand her creative vision. Instead, her time there proved to be a challenging ordeal, culminating in an 18-month hospitalization with the diagnosis of "hysteria." This difficult period became a formative point in her career, one ..." |
 | | Women Who Make a Fuss(1st Edition) The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf (Univocal) by Isabelle Stengers, Vinciane Despret, April Knutson, Vinciane Knutson Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 2014 by Univocal Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-937561-19-2, ISBN: 1-937561-19-4 "Virginia Woolf, to whom university admittance had been forbidden, watched the universities open their doors. Though she was happy that her sisters could study in university libraries, she cautioned women against joining the procession of educated men and being co-opted into protecting a "civilization" with values alien to women. Now, as Woolf's disloyal (unfaithful) daughters, who have professional positions in Belgian universities, Isa ..." |
 | | Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology by Oren Harman, Bruce Weber, William Dritschilo, Vinciane Despret, David Sepkoski, Mark Borrello, Nathaniel Comfort, Michael Dietrich, Raphael Falk, Tim Horder, David Hull, John Prebble, Jan Saap, Ullica Segrestrale, Ute Deichmann, Garland Allen, Michael Ruse, Daniel Kevles, Professor R. C. Lewontin, James F. Crow, Philip V. Tobias, Michael R. Dietrich Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2009 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15845-8, ISBN: 0-300-15845-9 "The stories of nineteen scientists--some famous, some forgotten--who stubbornly challenged assumptions and icons in the life sciences This book is the first devoted to modern biology’s innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. Some of these scientists were Nobel Prize winners, some were considered cranks or gadflies, some were in fact wrong. The stories of these stubborn dissenters are ..." |
 | | Our Grateful Dead Stories of Those Left Behind (Volume 65) (Posthumanities) by Despret, Vinciane, Muecke, Stephen Paperback, 196 Pages, Published 2021 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-1141-6, ISBN: 1-5179-1141-9 |
 | | Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology(1st Edition) by Oren Harman, Bruce Weber, Vinciane Despret, William Dritschilo, David Sepkoski, Michael Dietrich, Mark Borrello, Nathaniel Comfort, Raphael Falk, Tim Horder, David Hull, John Prebble, Michael Ruse, Jan Saap, Ullica Segrestrale, Ute Deichmann, Garland Allen, Daniel Kevles, R. C. Lewontin, James F. Crow, Philip V. Tobias, Oren Solomon Harman, Michael R. Dietrich Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2008 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11639-7, ISBN: 0-300-11639-X "This book is the first devoted to modern biology’s innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. Some of these scientists were Nobel Prize winners, some were considered cranks or gadflies, some were in fact wrong. The stories of these stubborn dissenters are individually fascinating. Taken together, they provide unparalleled insights into the role of dissent and controversy in science and e ..." |
 | | Women Who Make a Fuss The Unfaithful Daughters of Virginia Woolf (Univocal) by Stengers, Isabelle, Despret, Vinciane, Knutson, April Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 2021 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-0762-4, ISBN: 1-5179-0762-4 |
 | | Our Grateful Dead Stories of Those Left Behind (Volume 65) (Posthumanities) by Despret, Vinciane Hardcover, Published 2021 by Univ Of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5179-1140-9, ISBN: 1-5179-1140-0 |
 | | Habiter en oiseau by Vinciane Despret, Despret/Morizot Paperback, Published 2019 by Actes Sud Editions ISBN-13: 978-2-330-12673-5, ISBN: 2-330-12673-5 |
 | | Etre bete L'esprit des étables (Nature) (French Edition) by Porcher Jocelyne /. D., Vinciane Despret Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2007 by Actes Sud ISBN-13: 978-2-7427-7126-4, ISBN: 2-7427-7126-3 "Un essai qui interroge la différence entre l'homme et les animaux, remettant en question la rupture entre nature et culture, et ce qui fonde "le propre de l'homme", pour retrouver un lieu où des relations particulières et concrètes avec les animaux produisent des connaissances et construisent des identités." |
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