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OverviewHumans are animals who fictionalize other animals to asse their ""humanness."" We are philosophical animals who philosophize about our humanity by projecting images onto a mirror about other animals. Spanning literature, philosophy, and ethics, the thread uniting The Philosophical Animal is the bestiary and how it continues to inform our imaginings. Beginning with an exploration of animals and women in the literary work of Coetzee, famous for his book on the Lives of Animals, Eduardo Mendieta then dives into the genre of bestiaries in order to investigate the relation between humanity and animality. From there he approaches the works of Derrida and Habermas from the standpoint of genetic engineering and animal studies. While we have intensely modified many species genetically, we have not done this to ourselves. Why? Finally, Mendieta deals with the political and ethical implications suggested by this question before ending on an autobiographical note about growing up around so-called animals, and in particular horses. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of Penn State. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: https://openmonographs.org/. It can also be found in the SUNY Open Access Repository at https://soar.suny.edu/handle/20.500.12648/14967 . Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eduardo MendietaPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438498119ISBN 10: 143849811 Pages: 266 Publication Date: 02 December 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Poetic Species I. Ceasing to Be Animal 1. Zoopoetics: Coetzee's Animals and Philosophy 2. Political Bestiary: On the Uses of Violence 3. Heidegger's Bestiary: The Speechless and Unhistorical Animal II. Not Yet Human 4. Habermas on Human Cloning: The Debate on the Future of the Species 5. Communicative Freedom and Genetic Engineering 6. We Have Never Been Human, or How We Lost Our Humanity: From Habermas and Derrida to Midgley and Haraway by Way of Agamben III. Toward a Companion Species Ethics 7. Animal Is to Kantianism As Jew Is to Fascism: Adorno's Bestiary 8. Interspecies Cosmopolitanism 9. Bestiaries of Extinction: Anthropodicy or Anthropohippology Notes IndexReviews""This eloquent discussion brings a range of continental figures and European traditions of philosophy to bear on the question of the animal. From Habermas to Derrida, and all that lies between, Mendieta's discussion is unique and thought-provoking."" — Cynthia Willett, author of Interspecies Ethics Author InformationEduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy and Latina/o studies at Penn State University. He is the author of several books, including Global Fragments: Globalizations, Latinamericanisms, and Critical Theory, also published by SUNY Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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