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humanimalia-9915	Iveson, Richard	Toward an Imaginary Animal Studies: Review of Boria Sax, Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous, and the Human	2015	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5026	169	43	Human animals, in short, are “uniquely elusive” insofar as they Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2015) 170 lack any uniquely human characteristic; rather, they are always “disguised, airbrushed, rethought, hidden, exaggerated or otherwise altered” (24). In positing the existence of a mythic and timeless animal realm, particularly one that reserves for human animals alone the possibility of experiencing an authentic “primordial response,” Sax suggests that the primary function of “Nature” is in fact to humble a self-aggrandizing humanity that would otherwise be consumed by arrogance and hubris.2 Humanimalia: a journal of human/animal interface studies Volume 6, Number 2 (Spring 2015) 172 At this point, Sax cites Donna Haraway’s equally well-known critique of the Derrida passage, in which she justifiably takes Derrida to task for failing to consider the actuality of the cat — that is, her singular, nonsubstitutable existence and specific ways of being — as being relevant to the encounter.	cache/humanimalia-9915.pdf	txt/humanimalia-9915.txt