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Animal Lessons
- How They Teach Us to Be Human
Engelsk Hardback

Animal Lessons

- How They Teach Us to Be Human
Engelsk Hardback

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Philosophy reads humanity against animality, arguing that "man" is man because he is separate from beast. Deftly challenging this position, Kelly Oliver proves that, in fact, it is the animal that teaches us to be human. Through their sex, their habits, and our perception of their purpose, animals show us how not to be them. This kinship plays out in a number of ways. We sacrifice animals to establish human kinship, but without the animal, the bonds of "brotherhood" fall apart. Either kinship with animals is possible or kinship with humans is impossible. Philosophy holds that humans and animals are distinct, but in defending this position, the discipline depends on a discourse that relies on the animal for its very definition of the human. Through these and other examples, Oliver does more than just establish an animal ethics. She transforms ethics by showing how its very origin is dependent upon the animal. Examining for the first time the treatment of the animal in the work of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, Agamben, Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva, among others, Animal Lessons argues that the animal bites back, thereby reopening the question of the animal for philosophy.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
376
ISBN-13:
9780231147262
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0231147260
Udg. Dato:
8 okt 2009
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
Columbia University Press
Oplagsdato:
8 okt 2009
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