The animal catalyst : towards ahuman theory /

"The Animal Catalyst deals with the 'question' of 'what is an animal' and also in some instances, 'what is a human'? It pushes the critical animal studies in important new directions; it re-examines its basic assumptions, suggests new paradigms for how we can live...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: MacCormack, Patricia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
Subjects:
Human-animal relationships > Philosophy.
Animal welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Speciesism.
Philosophical anthropology.
Relations homme-animal > Philosophie.
Animaux > Protection > Aspect moral.
Spécisme.
Anthropologie philosophique.
philosophical anthropology.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Criticism.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE New Abolitionist Approaches; 1 The War on Compassion; 2 Legal Technology Confronts Speciesism, or We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us; 3 'Beyond' the Singular? Ecology, Subjectivity, Politics; PART TWO Animal Mediators: Philosophy, Film, Literature; 4 Etre aux aguets: Deleuze, Creation and Territorialization; 5 Out of the Labyrinth, into the Métro: Becoming-animal, the Waking Dream and Movements of World in Raymond Queneau and Louis Malle's Zazie dans le métro.
  • 6 The Animal That Therefore I Am Not: Inhuman Mediations on the Ultimate Degeneration of Bios and Zoe via the Inevitable Process of Phenomenophagism7 The Taste of Living; PART THREE Ahumanity: A Liberation of Life; 8 Suicide for Animals; 9 Dark Pedagogy; 10 Self-Harm, Human Harm?; 11 After Life; Bibliography; Index.

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