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Beyond nature : animal liberation, Marxism, and critical theory /

"In Beyond Nature Maurizi tackles the animal question from an unprecedented perspective: strongly criticizing the abstract moralism that has always characterized animal rights activism, the author proposes a historical-materialistic analysis of the relationship between humans and non-humans. By...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Maurizi, Marco, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Colección:Historical materialism book series, volume 235
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Soul of Animals under Socialism
  • 2. Did You Say 'Dialectics'?
  • 3. Singer & Sons
  • 4. Against Animal Liberation Ideology
  • 5. Critical Failures
  • 6. Hegelian Animal Spirits
  • 7. The Structure of the Book
  • Part 1. Critique of Animal Liberation Ideology
  • Chapter 1. What Is Antispeciesism?
  • 1. Three Different Definitions
  • 2. A Sociological Fallacy
  • 3. Metaphysical and Historical Antispeciesism
  • 4. Animal Liberation and Human Liberation?
  • Chapter 2. On the Genesis of Speciesism
  • 1. The Ambiguity of Speciesism
  • 2. The Origin of Speciesism
  • 3. How?
  • 4. Speciesism and Human Liberation
  • Chapter 3. Animal Rights Activism and Its Discontents
  • 1. Two Forms of Praxis: Conflict and Inclusion
  • 2. Conflict
  • 3. Inclusion
  • 4. The 'Bottom-Up' Change Is a Disguised Hierarchical Change
  • 5. Veganism Is Not a Mode of Production
  • Part 2. Marxism and Animal Liberation
  • Chapter 4. Marxism and Animal Rights
  • 1. One Struggle?
  • 2. Animal Rights vs. Marx
  • 3. The Role of Animals in Marxism
  • 4. The Real Problem: Animal Alienation
  • Chapter 5. Marxism and the Repression of Nature
  • 1. Animal and Capital
  • 2. History and Natural History in Marx and Engels
  • 3. From Primitive Communism to the Early States
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. The Dialectical Animal
  • 1. Animality and Anthropopoiesis
  • 2. From the Institute for Social Research to the 'Frankfurt School'
  • 3. From Nature to Animals
  • 4. The Structure of Domination
  • 5. The Specific Role of Animals in the General Scheme of Domination
  • 6. The Dialectical Animal
  • 7. Materialistic Solidarity
  • 8. A New 'Dialectics of Nature'
  • 9. The Reconciliation of Nature
  • Part 3. Conclusion: Beyond Nature
  • Chapter 7. Towards a Post-Neolithic Society
  • 1. Materialism and Technē
  • 2. Universal History as a Catastrophe
  • 3. The Universal Human Being and the Enlarged Animal Society
  • 4. Rien faire comme une bête
  • Chapter 8. The Aporetic Nature of the Theory/Praxis Opposition
  • Epilogue. Antispeciesism and Anticapitalism
  • References
  • Index