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The animality of human beings is completely unknown. Being human means to be something other than an animal, to not be an animal. Felice Cimatti, with reference to the work of Gilles Deleuze, explores what human animality looks like. He shows that becoming animal means to stop thinking of humanity as the reference point of nature and the world. It means that our value as humans has the very same value as a cloud, a rock or a spider. Drawing on a wide range of texts from philosophical ethology, to classical texts, to continental philosophy and literature Cimatti creates a dialogue with Flaubert, Derrida, Temple Grandin, Heidegger as well as Malaparte and Landolfi as part of this intriguing discussion about our humanity and our unknown animality.

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A powerful new voice from Italy, the philosopher Felice Cimatti has written one of the most courageous books on the stakes of human animality that I have ever read. In Unbecoming Human, Cimatti argues that only by taking our own animality more seriously can we truly face the existential crises presented by the rise of the homo economicus. The result is both a devastating critique of much of contemporary animal studies and an attempt to imagine a world without persons, subjects, and objects. A stunning work.--Timothy Campbell, Cornell University

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Felice Cimatti is Professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Calabria, Italy. He is the author of 7 books in Italian. Filosofia dell'animalità was published by Laterza in 2013. Fabio Gironi is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin. He is the author of Analytic and Continental Kantianism: The Legacy of Kant in Sellars and Meillassoux (Routledge, 2017) and Naturalizing Badiou: Mathematical Ontology and Structural Realism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

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