The Animal Inside Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies 1st Edition by Geoffrey Dierckxsens 9781783488223 1783488220

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• ISBN 10: 1783488220
• ISBN 13: 9781783488223
• Author: Geoffrey Dierckxsens

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

Table contents:

Part I: General Explorations of Human and Animal Nature
1 Promethean Tricks and Thyestean Feasts: Bloody Sacrifice and Vegetarianism in Ancient Cultures
2 Kata Phusin: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives on the Hermeneutic of Animality
3 The Animal in Early Modern Philosophical Anthropology
4 “An Insect Fallen on Its Back”: Animal Imagery in the Work of Jean-Paul Sartre
5 What Is Distinctively Human? Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre on the Relation between Humans and Animals
6 Better a Human Than a Lion (!?) Age-old Human Superiority Fights Reason
Part II: Aspects of Human and Animal Nature
7 The Imagination of Animals: Rilke, Kafka, and the Philosophy and Literature of Embodied Cognition
8 Werewolves: A Reconsideration of Hobbes’s State of Nature from the Perspective of Biopolitics
9 “The Genuine Problem of the Human Being”: Nietzsche, Animality, and History
10 The Hermeneutical Animal: Making Sense of Animal Otherness “in the Flesh”
11 Being-toward-Meat: An Analytic of Human-Animal Finitude
12 On Laboratory Life for a Wired Object: Mirror Neurons and the New Red Peter

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