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. The book offers a systematic study
of the increasing importance of the metaphors, the virtual, and
figures in contemporary animal studies. It explores human-animal
and real-imaginary dichotomies, revealing them to be the source of
oppressive cultural structures. Through an analysis of creative,
playful and theatric enactments and mimicry of animal behaviors and
communication, the book establishes that human imagination is based
on animal imagination. This helps redefine our traditional
knowledge about animals and presents new practices and ethical
concerns in regard to the animals. The book strongly contends that
allowing imagination to play a role in our relation to animals will
lead to the development of a more empathetic approach towards them.
Drawing on works in phenomenology, contemporary animal philosophy,
as well as ethological evidence and biosemiotics, this book is the
first to rethink the traditional philosophical concepts of
imagination, images, the imaginary, and reality in the light of a
zoocentric perspective. It will appeal to philosophers, scholars
and students in the field of animal studies, as well as anyone
interested in human and non-human imaginations.
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