The History of Animals: A Philosophy

Oxana Timofeeva (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-01201-1 (ISBN)

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Oxana Timofeeva's The History of Animals: A Philosophy is an original and ambitious treatment of the "animal question". While philosophers have always made distinctions between human beings and animals, Timofeeva imagines a world free of such walls and borders. Timofeeva shows the way towards the full acceptance of our animality; an acceptance which does not mean the return to our animal roots, or anything similar. The freedom generated by this acceptance operates through negativity; is an effect of the rejection of the very core of metaphysical philosophy and Christian culture, traditionally opposed to our ‘animal’ nature and seemingly detached from it.

With a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, this book is accessible, jargon-free and ideal for students and all those interested in re-imagining how we engage with animals and the environment.

Oxana Timofeeva is Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology at the European University at St. Petersberg, Russia. Slavoj Žižek is one of the world's leading contemporary cultural critics and a hugely prolific author. He is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, UK, and Visiting Professor at the New School for Social Research, New York, USA.

preface
acknowledgements

Foreword by Slavoj Žižek
1. Oedipus the Horse
2. Before the Law
3. The Insane
4. Insecure, Anxious and Unhappy
5. Unemployed Animality
6. Dialectics of the Fish
7. The Shepherd of Being
8. Poor Life

bibliography
index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2018
Einführung	Slavoj Žižek
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	255 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-350-01201-7 / 1350012017
ISBN-13	978-1-350-01201-1 / 9781350012011
Zustand	Neuware