The Philosophical Animal

Mendieta, Eduardo

dc.contributor.author	Mendieta, Eduardo
dc.date.accessioned	2024-06-18T13:01:00Z
dc.date.available	2024-06-18T13:01:00Z
dc.date.issued	2024-06-01
dc.identifier.isbn	9781438498096
dc.identifier.isbn	9781438498102
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/14967
dc.description	Humans 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.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	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:openmonographs.org.
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	SUNY Press	en_US
dc.relation.url	https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Philosophical-Animal	en_US
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Continental Philosophy	en_US
dc.subject	Ethics	en_US
dc.subject	Political Theory	en_US
dc.subject	Literature	en_US
dc.subject	Phenomenology	en_US
dc.title	The Philosophical Animal	en_US
dc.title.alternative	On Zoopoetics and Interspecies Cosmopolitanism	en_US
dc.type	Monograph	en_US
dc.description.version	VoR	en_US
refterms.dateFOA	2024-06-18T13:01:03Z
dc.description.institution	N/A	en_US
dc.description.degreelevel	N/A	en_US