Over the Human - Post-humanism and the Concept of Animal Epiphany

This book presents a new way to understand human-animal interactions. Offering a profound discussion of topics such as human identity, our relationship with animals and the environment, and our culture, the author channels the vibrant Italian traditions of humanism, materialism, and speculative philosophy.
The research presents a dialogue between the humanities and the natural sciences. It challenges the separation and oppression of animals with a post-humanism steeped in the traditions of the Italian Renaissance.
Readers discover a vision of the human as a species informed by an intertwining with animals. The human being is not constructed by an onto-poetic process, but rather by close relations with otherness. The human system is increasingly unstable and, therefore, more hybrid.
The argument it presents interests scholars, thinkers, and researchers. It also appeals to anyone who wants to delve intothe deep animal-human bond and its philosophical, cultural, political instances.
The author is a veterinarian, ethologist, and philosopher. He uses cognitive science, zooanthropology, and philosophy to engage in a series of empirical, theoretical, and practice-based engagements with animal life. In the process, he argues that animals are key to human identity and culture at all levels.

List of contents

1. The Epimethean Condition.- 2. The Promethean Condition.- 3. The Therioanthrophic Being As Our Neighbour.- 4. Overcoming The Human.- 5. Zoomimesis: Embodied Epiphany.- 6. Step To A Philosophical Ethology.- 7. The Posthuman Dimension.

Summary

Argues that animals are key to human identity and culture at all levelsWritten by a veterinarian, ethologist, and philosopherPresents a dialog between the humanities and the natural sciences

Product details

• Authors: Roberto Marchesini
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319873466
• ISBN: 978-3-31-987346-6
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 9 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 265 g
• Illustrations: VI, 160 p.
• Series: Numanities - Arts and Humanities in Progress
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Anthropologie, B, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Ethics, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Umweltschützer: Denkansätze und Ideologien, Anthropology, Philosophy, Ontology, Epistemology, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophie: Metaphysik und Ontologie, Philosophy of Nature, Religion and Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Post-human Philosophy, Philosophical Ethology, Zooanthropology