Philosophy, Animality and the Life Sciences

ISBN-13: 9780748676774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 168 str.

Wahida Khandker

Opis

Using animals for scientific research is a highly contentious issue that Continental philosophers engaging with "the animal question" have been rightly accused of shying away from. Now, Wahida Khandker asks, can Continental approaches to animality and organic life make us reconsider our treatment of non-human animals? By following its historical and philosophical development, Khandker argues that the concept of 'pathological life' as a means of understanding organic life as a whole plays a pivotal role in refiguring the human-animal distinction.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Forces of Nature: Evolution, Divergence, Decimation; Chapter 2: Pathological Life and the Limits of Medical Perception; Chapter 3: Violence, Pathos and Animal Life in European Philosophy and Critical Animal Studies; Chapter 4: From Animal-Machines to Cybernetic Organisms; Chapter 5: Organicism and Complexity: Whitehead and Kauffman; Chapter 6: Aped, Mongrelised and Scapegoated: Adventures in Biopolitics and Transgenics in Haraway’s Animal Worlds; Epilogue: A Vicious Circle; Bibliography.