The Animal Inside (eBook, ePUB)

Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies
Redaktion: Dierckxsens, Geoffrey; Kiefer, Thomas; Begun, Michael; Bijlsma, Rudmer

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Much has been written about animals in applied ethics, environmental ethics, and animal rights. This book takes a new turn, offering an examination of the 'animal question' from a more fundamental, philosophical-anthropological perspective. The contributors in this important volume focus on how the animal has appeared and can be used in philosophical argumentation as a metaphor or reference point that helps us understand what is distinctively human and what is not. A recurring theme in the essays is the existence of a zone of ambiguity between animals and humans, which puts into question comfortable assumptions about the uniqueness and superiority of human nature.

While the chapters straddle the boundaries of historical-philosophical and systematic, continental and analytic approaches, their thematic unity knits them together, presenting a rich, broad, and yet cohesive perspective. The first part of the book offers general explorations of the relation between animal and human nature, and of the concomitant existential and ethical dimensions of this relationship. The chapters in the second part address the same theme, but, in so doing, focus on specific aspects of animal and human nature: imagination, politics, history, sense, finitude, and science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783488223
• Artikelnr.: 47385691

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Dierckxsens obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Antwerp. Rudmer Bijlsma is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Fort Hare in South Africa. Michael Begun is a graduate student in philosophy at Fordham University. Thomas Kiefer is a graduate student in philosophy at Fordham University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction / PART I: General Explorations of Human and Animal Nature / 1.
Nonhuman animals: a shared life and a licence to kill, Giulia Sissa / 2.
KataPhusin: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives on the Hermeneutics of
Animality, Thomas Kiefer / 3. Human Beings and Animals in Early Modern
Philosophy, Rudmer Bijlsma / 4. 'An Insect Fallen on Its Back': Animal
Imagery in the Work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jo Bogaerts / 5. What is
Distinctively Human? Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre on the Relation
between Humans and Animals, Rob Compaijen and Michiel Meijer / 6. Is it
better to be a Human than a Lion?: An Analysis of Weighing Species Being,
Lantz Miller / PART II: Aspects of Human and Animal Nature / 7. Imagination
- The Imagination of Animals, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei / 8. The Political
Animal - Werewolves: A Reconsideration of Hobbes's State of Nature from the
Perspective of Biopolitics, Herbert De Vriese / 9. History - 'The Genuine
Problem of the Human Being': Nietzsche, Animality, and History, Michael
Begun / 10. Sense -The Hermeneutical Animal: Making Sense of Animals 'In
the Flesh', Geoffrey Dierckxsens / 11. Finitude - Being-toward-Meat: An
Analytic of Human-Animal Finitude, Matthew Calarco / 12. Science - Mirror
Neurons and the New Red Peter, Babette Babich / Index