The Imaginary of Animals

ISBN-13: 9780367772970 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str.

Annabelle Dufourcq

Opis

This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its profound power over the human imagination. It examines the structural and ethical role that the human imagination must play to provide an interface between humans’ subjectivity and the real cognitive capacities of animals.

Spis treści

Introduction the Imaginary: A Human-Non-Human-Animal Interface  1. Human-Animal Metaphors: Identity and Similarity at Issue  2. Phenomenology of the Animal Imaginary: Non-Human Subjects, Ambiguous Worlds, Empathy  3. Animal Bodies and the Virtual: Animals as Real Phantoms  4. They Talk the Way We Dream: Animal Communication and Human Imagination  5. Metamorphoses and Corporeal Imagination: The "Second Person" at Stake  Conclusion: Why Imagine With Animals?

O autorze

Annabelle Dufourcq is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Radboud University. She researches and teaches in the areas of contemporary continental philosophy and animal studies. She is the author or editor of several books on the relation between the real and the imaginary from a phenomenological perspective.