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Zusatztext This is a tour de force of originality and scholarship. Neither affirming the ethical or metaphysical equivalence of animals with humans! nor restoring an essential divide! her powerful genealogy of the animal in modern thought destroys any sense of purity or simplicity. What has come to be known as 'the human' has configured itself through a series of impossible relations to species that are at one and the same time enigmatic! proximate! anthropomorphized! alien and companionable. This book is a must read for anyone working in posthumanism or animal studies. Informationen zum Autor Oxana Timofeeva is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of the art group Chto Delat . Slavoj Žižek is a Hegelian philosopher, a Lacanian psychoanalyst, and a Communist. He is International Director at the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK, Visiting Professor at the New York University, USA, and Senior Researcher at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Zusammenfassung Oxana Timofeeva's The History of Animals: A Philosophy is an original and ambitious treatment of the "animal question". While philosophers have always made distinctions between human beings and animals, Timofeeva imagines a world free of such walls and borders. Timofeeva shows the way towards the full acceptance of our animality; an acceptance which does not mean the return to our animal roots, or anything similar. The freedom generated by this acceptance operates through negativity; is an effect of the rejection of the very core of metaphysical philosophy and Christian culture, traditionally opposed to our ‘animal’ nature and seemingly detached from it.With a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, this book is accessible, jargon-free and ideal for students and all those interested in re-imagining how we engage with animals and the environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis preface acknowledgements Foreword by Slavoj Žižek1. Oedipus the Horse2. Before the Law3. The Insane4. Insecure, Anxious and Unhappy5. Unemployed Animality6. Dialectics of the Fish7. The Shepherd of Being8. Poor Life bibliography index ...
