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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Geoffrey Dierckxsens; Rudmer Bijlsma; Michael Begun and Thomas Kiefer Klappentext A team of renowned philosophers and a new generation of thinkers come together to offer the first book-length examination of the relationship between philosophical anthropology and animal studies. Zusammenfassung A team of renowned philosophers and a new generation of thinkers come together to offer the first book-length examination of the relationship between philosophical anthropology and animal studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction / PART I: General Explorations of Human and Animal Nature / 1. Nonhuman animals: a shared life and a licence to kill, Giulia Sissa / 2. Kata Phusin: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives on the Hermeneutics of Animality, Thomas Kiefer / 3. Human Beings and Animals in Early Modern Philosophy, Rudmer Bijlsma / 4. 'An Insect Fallen on Its Back': Animal Imagery in the Work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jo Bogaerts / 5. What is Distinctively Human? Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre on the Relation between Humans and Animals, Rob Compaijen and Michiel Meijer / 6. Is it better to be a Human than a Lion?: An Analysis of Weighing Species Being, Lantz Miller / PART II: Aspects of Human and Animal Nature / 7. Imagination - The Imagination of Animals, Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei / 8. The Political Animal - Werewolves: A Reconsideration of Hobbes's State of Nature from the Perspective of Biopolitics, Herbert De Vriese / 9. History - 'The Genuine Problem of the Human Being': Nietzsche, Animality, and History, Michael Begun / 10. Sense - The Hermeneutical Animal: Making Sense of Animals 'In the Flesh', Geoffrey Dierckxsens / 11. Finitude - Being-toward-Meat: An Analytic of Human-Animal Finitude, Matthew Calarco / 12. Science - Mirror Neurons and the New Red Peter, Babette Babich / Index

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• Assisted by: Michael Begun (Editor), Rudmer Bijlsma (Editor), Dr Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Editor), Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Editor), Thomas Kiefer (Editor), Kiefer Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2016
• EAN: 9781783488216
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-821-6
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and cultural anthropology, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge