Description
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.
Table of Contents
PrefaceEditors' Introduction:
The Animal Question in Continental Philosophy
1. NietzscheO My Animals
Nietzsche and Animals
2. HeideggerThe Animal is Poor on World
Heidegger's Zoontology
3. BatailleAnimality
Bataille and the Poetic Fallacy of Animality
4. LevinasThe Name of a Dog, or Natural Rights
Ethical Cynisim
5. Foucault
Animality and InsanityMadness and Animality in Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization
6. Deleuze and GuattariBecoming Animal
Animal Becomings
7. DerridaThe Animal That Therefore I AmThinking with Cats
8. FerryNeither Man nor Stone
Manly Values: Luc Ferry's Ethical Philosophy
9. CixousBirds, Women and WritingThe Writing of Birds, in My Language
10. Irigaray
Animal Compassion
Author(s)
Peter Atterton, Peter Atterton teaches in the Deaprtment of Philosophy at the University of San Diego.
Matthew Calarco, Matthew Calarco is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sweet Briar College.