Animal PhilosophyMatthew Calarco, Peter Atterton Animal Philosophy is the first text to look at the place and treatment of animals in Continental thought. A collection of essential primary and secondary readings on the animal question, it brings together contributions from the following key Continental thinkers: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Bataille, Levinas, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Ferry, Cixous, and Irigaray. Each reading is followed by commentary and analysis from a leading contemporary thinker. The coverage of the subject is exceptionally broad, ranging across perspectives that include existentialism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, phenomenology and feminism. This anthology is an invaluable one-stop resource for anyone researching, teaching or studying animal ethics and animal rights in the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, literary theory, sociology, environmental studies and gender and women's studies. |
Contents
O My Animals | 3 |
The Animal Is Poor in World | 17 |
Animality | 33 |
The Name of a Dog or Natural Rights | 47 |
Animality and Insanity | 65 |
Madness and Animality in Michel Foucaults Madness and Civilization | 72 |
BecomingAnimal | 87 |
Animal Becomings | 101 |
Thinking with Cats | 129 |
Neither Man nor Stone | 147 |
Luc Ferrys Ethical Philosophy | 157 |
Birds Women and Writing | 167 |
The Writing of the Birds in My Language | 174 |
Animal Compassion | 195 |
Notes | 203 |
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