With Dogs at the Edge of Life

by Colin Dayan

Book Overview

In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane societies of the United States, and in the memories and myths of the humans who love them. Dayan reorients our ethical and political assumptions through a trans-species engagement that risks as much as it promises...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231167121
• ISBN13: 9780231167123
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher